Countdown HH:MM:SS

[Roger Eller]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:12 AM, Ken Ray wrote:

>
> On Jul 19, 2011, at 10:00 PM, DunbarX at aol.com wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> >
> > Shorter? It already can be pretty short. MUCH shorter? Where's  Colin?
>
> Here's the fastest way I know:
>
> on mouseUp
>  DisplayTime
> end mouseUp
>
> on DisplayTime
>  put the long time into tTime
>  convert tTime to dateItems
>  split tTime by ","
>  put format("%02d:%02d:%02d",tTime[4],tTime[5],tTime[6]) into fld "Time"
>  send "DisplayTime" to me in 1 second
> end DisplayTime
>
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>
>
Using the dateItems is definitely the right direction, but my objective is
to count backwards from for example; 2 hours, 45 minutes, and 59 seconds
while updating the display field every second.  When the countdown reaches
00:00:00, I would play a sound of do other actions.

˜Roger