Timing

Tres cool; thanks for sharing, Phil!

Thanks colin, just added stop and start button

Ironically, that was going to be my first addition - this makes that easier!

Wow Phil, this is very cool!  Definitely will come in handy.  I like demos with variables in them because I can study them!    

I have a few questions after looking "under the hood:"

1.  I see that you have the 2 layers looping back and forth each second - can you explain the logic to help this newbie understand why this is necessary?

2.  How can you get it to stop?  Can it be set up to start/stop/reset?  Would simple triggers work for this, or would you need variables also?

Thanks!

Jill

OK, while I was writing my post, you added start and stop buttons - boy are you fast!  But what about a reset button? Also, could the stopwatch be triggered by a hotspot over the button?

Hi Jill

I have a request from Bruce to make this answer "Bruce" freindly.

I will try and do a sreenr tonight to explain this.

The looping layers are there as i needed a way to measure seconds (hence them being 1 second in length)  the triggers on these layers increment the variables then fire every second (on timeline start)

I updated the file with a stop and start button.  But basically to stop I hide both layers (I have no way of knowing which is open) and to start show layer 1 which start the perpetual looping again.  You could add a reset by resetting all the variables (M, S1, S2) to zero

hope this helps

Phil

You could use a hotspot just copy the triggers from the buttons, will add a reset button and upload

just for Gill, a reset button as well

If you want it to restart after reseting just add a show layer 1 trigger to the reset button

A Screenr as promised

Impressive Phil and thanks for sharing, my understanding of variables gets better and better with the forums help! Well done!

Chat54

Thanks Phil!  So helpful.  I appreciate the reset button too  

I am so grateful for anyone sharing demos with variables in them.  I'll have to try to build one myself.  

In the screenr you mentioned that you could do milliseconds - but could you when the smallest time Storyline can handle is .25 seconds? That would be our dream timeline - talk about precision!  :-)

Jill, you are right we could do deciseconds in .25 increments not milliseconds

It would be great to have that level of control.

Looking forward to seeing your demo

That is absolutely amazing! I think I'm light years away from achieving anything like that!