Create A Simple Counter In A Text Component

[mwashington]

I have a button, and a text component. I would like the text component to display "Total Time: 00:00" initially, and once the Start button is pressed, the time starts counting. I have a Channel called AccumTime which is setup as a test channel and counts incrementing by 1 sec.

All I need to know is the syntax for Scripting the Start Button to Start the Count

[AzeoTech]

Use a variable value component. Set the caption to:

Total Time

and set the Expression to:

formatTime(AccumTime[0])

[mwashington]

OK, so now that I have the format correct, how about the second part. The start button, how do I make it start counting

[AzeoTech]

I don't know how you are generating AccumTime so I can't say. You need to reset that to 0 in the Quick Sequence Action of the button.

[mwashington]

pic1.jpg at the beginning of this post has the Channel AccumTime and it's parameters...

[AzeoTech]

All that's doing is generating a sin wave. I'm guessing you just get numbers from -1 to 1. Do you want to log this count, or just see it?

[mwashington]

No, actually I would like the Button to start a quick sequence that tells "component.varTotalTime.strCaption" to increment by 1 (counting indefinitely)

When 60 seconds is made Total Time 01:00 is displayed, etc...

By the way, Thank You for your assistance.

[mwashington]

I figured how to get SYSTIME() to display in the variable component

(Do I really have to programmatically tell DF to specify what I want displayed... Say 00:00, at first and then 00:01, and 00:02...etc... dependant on the current time.)

That's really the only way I can see it working, unless there's another function out there

[AzeoTech]

No, that is backwards. If you want to display time since a button was pressed do this:

1) in the button's Action, select Quick Sequence, and put:

global startTime = systime()

2) create a variable value control like I first said. For the expression put:

FormatTime(systime() - startTime)

That's it. You don't need, or want a sequence.

[mwashington]

Thank You

[mwashington]

I don't really need the time since the button was pressed, I need the increment of pressing the button, Press Start Button and the variable text component starts counting relative to nothing more than the Start Button being pressed... irregardless of how much time has elapsed since the button was pressed

[AzeoTech]

You mean you want it to increment every time the Start button is pressed? Basically giving you the # of times the button was pressed? I'm really not clear what you are trying to count.

[BeeHay]

Maybe he is looking for something like this?

(lmk if you can not open the .ctl document, I will "re-compile" on my other machine!)

HTH

Time.ctl

[BeeHay]

Here is another compiled version!

Hope this helps!

Time_5.87a.ctl