opencard and visual effect

[Jim Lambert]

> Problem for me ist to measure the time until the user hits a key after a question 
> appears on the screen on the card. 
> And I start this on "opencard", so the VISUAL effect, what the user really sees,
> MUST have been terminated, but obviously "opencard" does not respect this.

If the visual effect may be compromising your very critical timing perhaps you should eliminate the visual effect.
Just go card and start timing upon opencard.

Jim Lambert