Countdown in a dialog box

[Bikeman17]

Hi there,

In order to delay a function, I would like to know how I can display a small dialog box for 5 seconds where you see a short message and a countdown. There must be trick for that. Any help?

bikeman

[Genx]

... No tricks... FM really needs timeable dialogs and progress bars as standard... hint hint... hint... hint hint hint...

If you were on mac, i'd recommend making a fake dialog box with a new window and refreshing but your on windows, and while you could do that it would restore your windows in all different fashions and flicker the whole screen each time it refreshes.

[Bikeman17]

Is it possible to create a loop that displays a window with no countdown for 5 seconds?

[Genx]

Ummm, you could use the pause/resume script step and choose 5 seconds... after which you close the window?

[Bikeman17]

That's what I currently do but I want to display a message with no OK button to click on.

I prefer a loop that will perform a pause/resume action. The challenge comes from the loop that should play 5 times. Any idea?

[Inky Phil]

Set a global to 5 before you start the loop and reduce it by 1 each time you loop. Exit loop if global<1

Phil

[Bikeman17]

It worked great! In order to display a message with no OK button to click on, I just created another layout that shows up during the loop.

Many thanks