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Posted: **Thu Jan 19, 2012 5:48 pm**

Hello everyone....I was hoping I could get some help on a timer I have modified. I found some info about creating a timer and I added a few things to make it useful for my program, but I have a question about the counting process. I will attach the code and explain...

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on mouseUp

      if the label of me = "start" then 
      set the label of me to "stop"
      set the startingTime of me to the seconds
      set the oldTime of me to line 1 of fld "timer"

      send "countUp" to me in 1
   else
      set the label of me to "start"
   end if
end mouseUp

on countUp
   
   put (the seconds - the startingTime of me) + the oldTime of me into fld "timer"
   if the label of btn "start" = "stop" then send "countUp" to me in 1

if fld "timer" >=60 then
   put "00" into fld "timer"
   add "1" to fld "minute"
   set the startingTime of me to the seconds
      set the oldTime of me to line 1 of fld "timer"
      send "countUp" to me in 1
else
   end if
end countUp

When the seconds tick up to 60, the counter resets and goes back to zero....but instead of looking like "00" , it looks like "0" then proceeds to count up by 1. I would like the numbers to be able to count up in increments of (01,02,03,etc), so that it looks more like a clock. Any suggestions?

Posted: **Thu Jan 19, 2012 7:46 pm**

Why not just prepend a "0" if the number of chars of your data = 1?

Craig Newman

Posted: **Thu Jan 19, 2012 8:15 pm**

That certainly seems like the easiest way to deal with it. The "add" calculation is "helpfully" removing the leading zeros for you, so you'll need to put them in as needed.

Posted: **Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:05 pm**

I appreciate the response but i am a noob with no idea what or how to do this....My coding experience is lousy and I am trying to learn....I have tried altering the code with a leading "0" in every line of code that is applicable , but nothing changes...I have tried to set the label's text to "00" but that doesn't work...can you give me an example? Sorry again...and thanks

Posted: **Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:09 pm**

NP. Try adding the following lines after your "add" line:

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   if fld "minute" < 10 then
      put "0" before fld "minute"
   end if

Posted: **Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:11 pm**

mwieder wrote:NP. Try adding the following lines after your "add" line:
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   if fld "minute" < 10 then
      put "0" before fld "minute"
   end if

Thank you very very much! I now have the timer working as I wanted....I have literally been working on this ALL DAY! Ha! I need to get used to the language of LIveCode and start trying plain english commands from now on....I have been learning the C++ language and it would not be as simple as saying "put a "0" before fld "minute".....Thanks again for helping out!

Posted: **Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:19 pm**

I think text processing is one of Livecode's strongest suits. Try doing something like

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put "<font color=" & quote & "red" & quote & ">" & tWarning & "</font>" before word 3 of line 7 of field "xyzzy"

in C++. It's a real pain.

Posted: **Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:41 pm**

You can also use the numberformat to force 2 digits.

If you add the following line to the top of your countup handler you should get the behavior you want.

set the numberformat to "00"

Posted: **Fri Jan 20, 2012 12:26 am**

Just noticed something in the script.

If the label of the button is stop, you do a send in time, but you also do a send in time if the seconds >= 60

Over time you will end up getting processor bound because every 60 seconds you will add yet another message to the queue. So first 60 seconds it will "send to me in 1.." at 60, you get 2 in queue, 120 3 in queue until you hit overload level. Don't need the 1 in the 60 second test because you have already taken care of it up above.

Posted: **Fri Jan 20, 2012 12:28 am**

Sturgis.

Of course. I am so used to only fooling around with the right side of the decimal point, I forgot that this property is just a flexible to the left.

So much better...

Craig Newman

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