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Apprentice Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 195

put %eval((@timerstart - %secs)/1000) in a button... and i get a result like -34539

put it in a alias and run the alias and i get the correct result which is more like 300. any ideas why?

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

Buttons don't like to expand more than one level. So you can expand a variable reference but not a function.

var=%eval((@timerstart - %secs)/1000)
Then place @var in the button label.

You could try using an expression trigger to set the variable or an alarm that goes off once a second to set it.

Apprentice Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 195

hmmm. that does work..

problem is tho that i need to update @var every few seconds to get an accurate number in the button. any idea how i could do that? other then something horrific like a every second alarm

Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 5:58 pm

How are you getting the values that feed @var?

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

The thing is just how often do you want it to update? If you don't need it to be extremely often you could place it in the prompt, AND make an alarm that fires every 30 seconds or so.