Timer

If it is needed only on the third slide, move it to the third slide. The master slide is for things that need to show up on several slides.

Somewhere, somehow, there is a trigger that starts the timing. It probably refers to something on the slide, like “Do this action when the timeline on this slide starts”.  If you move it to the slide where it is needed, it will probably function as you intend.  If not, attach the  .story file here, and. someone can take a look at it.

Hi, I am going to add my story file here. I am wondering did  I not add it correctly from the slide master?  Any help is welcome

Thank you,

Natalie

Actually, you didn't move the timer to the slides. You only moved the timer's display. The timer (the two layers) is still on the master, and starts when the first slide starts.

There are two ways around that in the attached project.

The first one is the Original Scene. It will work well if you want to use the timer some other place. I created a new layout named Blank, and renamed the original blank to Timer. I set slides one and three to use the Blank layout, and the second slide (with the timer display) to use the Timer layout. If you want to reuse the timer some other place, just set that slide layout to Timer, and place a display on it.

The other method is on scene Alternate, and may be more straight forward. I recreated the two timer layers and their triggers on slide two.

In all cases, I set Seconds  to 0 when the slide starts, so the timer starts over if the slide is revisited. I subtracted 1 from it only if it is greater than 0, so it doesn't go to negative  numbers.

Hi Walt,

Thank you so much that worked!! I appreciate your advice. 

Natalie

Hi Walt,

I  was able to have the timers work yesterday, but they are not working today. Not working means the numbers on the clock are not moving at all.

Also on the scene titled Orginal, I do not see any new layers called timer or blank. The original looks untouched to me, in your story file. 

I  went with the alternative scene option yesterday, but I THINK where I went wrong was I was trying to add it to another slide. I THINK I need to see the timer you made on the original scene because that is the option that will work for me. 

Thank you,

Natalie

Hi Walt,

Never mind it started working this afternoon, must not like the mornings. 

Natalie

Glad you got it going.

If you have to make changes to the original, the timer is in the layers on the master. I added a new layout to the master. The layout labeled  Timer has them, and for any slide where you need a timer, use that layout. For slides that don't need one, use the Blank layout.

Hi Walt or anyone with advice, 

Now with my game we want a retry option.  When I click retry, I keep going to the results slide. I am thinking I can not retry the game because my time is up. Am I correct in my thoughts? 

Natalie 

Hi Eric,

Thank you,

I will share my example here since there maybe someone with a similar question.

Here is an example, I do have the jump to slide trigger, and that is still not working. 

Thank you,

Natalie