Hi David,<br><br>Thanks for your response! <br>Making the change you suggested in the slide properties solves the echo problem: the echo now goes away when the slide finishes.<br><br>However, I still have the countdown problem... because I'm now defining a specific duration for the slide, the countdown clock script does not work; for it to work I have to define its Duration to 0 (zero).... there might be another way (other than the countdown script I'm using) to display a timer in the slide while it is on.<br><br>I really appreciate your help!<br><br>Jotapan<br><br><br>On Thursday, September 6, 2012 4:54:23 PM UTC+1, McFarlane, David wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;">Jotapan,
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<br>Why not just set your desired Duration, set Time Limit to (same as
<br>duration), and then (this is the key!) also set PreRelease to the
<br>same value as Duration? Starting with 2.0.10.18, EP2 even has a
<br>"(same as duration)" option for PreRelease, and this has become the default.
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<br>At 9/4/2012 09:53 PM Tuesday, you wrote:
<br>>I have been trying for some time to add a countdown clock display in
<br>>my programs that informs the participant on how long he(she) still
<br>>has to respond in a given task (e.g., during a slide presentation).
<br>>I have extensivelly looked in the forums for this information. I
<br>>found a specific post where 2 suggestions are presented (Displaying
<br>>a countdown timer for participants, originally posted on/ I was able
<br>>to work around the script /). I could not get the first suggestion
<br>>to work... I was able to work around the script provided in the
<br>>e-prime countdown sample, although it is not perfect; the countdown
<br>>example deals with seconds and I need minutes. So instead of having
<br>>"lnCountTime = (lnEndTime - Clock.Read) / 1000", I have lnCountTime
<br>>= (lnEndTime - Clock.Read) / 60000. Not perfect but ok.
<br>>
<br>>However, I get an echo problem with this. I want the participant to
<br>>be able to see all the responses he(she) is providing throught the
<br>>task and them have them disappear when the program moves to the next
<br>>slide. To get the countdown clock to work I have to set the duration
<br>>of the slide to 0. If I set the "time limit" to "same as duration"
<br>>it assumes the 0 duration and so the echo is not displayed
<br>>anymore... is there a way to add in the inline a command to finish
<br>>the echo when the time is up?
<br>>
<br>>Simply displaying a clock on the slide for the entire slide
<br>>presentation would work for me as well (instead of the countdown
<br>>clock) and could help solve the echo problem. Is there a simple way
<br>>to get a clock being displayed on a slide?
<br>>
<br>>I really appreciate all the help I can get on this.
<br>>
<br>>Jotapan
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