clock and echo problem

[David McFarlane]

Jotapan,

Why not just set your desired Duration, set Time Limit to (same as 
duration), and then (this is the key!) also set PreRelease to the 
same value as Duration?  Starting with 2.0.10.18, EP2 even has a 
"(same as duration)" option for PreRelease, and this has become the default.

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At 9/4/2012 09:53 PM Tuesday, you wrote:
>I have been trying for some time to add a countdown clock display in 
>my programs that informs the participant on how long he(she) still 
>has to respond in a given task (e.g., during a slide presentation). 
>I have extensivelly looked in the forums for this information. I 
>found a specific post where 2 suggestions are presented (Displaying 
>a countdown timer for participants, originally posted on/ I was able 
>to work around the script /). I could not get the first suggestion 
>to work... I was able to  work around the script provided in the 
>e-prime countdown sample, although it is not perfect; the countdown 
>example deals with seconds and I need minutes. So instead of having 
>"lnCountTime = (lnEndTime - Clock.Read) / 1000", I have lnCountTime 
>= (lnEndTime - Clock.Read) / 60000. Not perfect but ok.
>
>However, I get an echo problem with this. I want the participant to 
>be able to see all the responses he(she) is providing throught the 
>task and them have them disappear when the program moves to the next 
>slide. To get the countdown clock to work I have to set the duration 
>of the slide to 0. If I set the "time limit" to "same as duration" 
>it assumes the 0 duration and so the echo is not displayed 
>anymore... is there a way to add in the inline a command to finish 
>the echo when the time is up?
>
>Simply displaying a clock on the slide for the entire slide 
>presentation would work for me as well (instead of the countdown 
>clock) and could help solve the echo problem. Is there a simple way 
>to get a clock being displayed on a slide?
>
>I really appreciate all the help I can get on this.
>
>Jotapan

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