Countdown Display in Center of Screen

[RobertH]

Is there a way to use SplashTextOn to smoothly display a countdown in the center of the screen? Similar to what this ToolTip command is doing.

; This will create a tooltip in the upper left of the screen that counts down from 5 to 1.
ToolTip("This is counting to 5.", 0, 0)
Sleep(1000) ;Sleep to give tooltip time to display.
ToolTip("This is counting to 4.", 0, 0)
Sleep(1000)
ToolTip("This is counting to 3.", 0, 0)
Sleep(1000)
ToolTip("This is counting to 2.", 0, 0)
Sleep(1000)
ToolTip("This is counting to 1.", 0, 0)
Sleep(1000)

[RobertH]

Yes, and the help file basically shows you exactly how to do it too.

Thanubis, thank you for your informative and thought provoking reply However, I should have included somewhere in my original post that I took a look at the help file before posting. I will keep that in mind for any future post that I may make. The help file demonstrates how to get SplashTextOn to display a sequential line of numbers vertically. If I remove the @LF I can get SplashTextOn to display the same sequential numbers horizontally. What I am attempting to figure out is if I can display a countdown from HighNumber to LowNumber using SplashTextOn. I only want to display the number for Sleep(1000) then erase it before the next number appears. Similar to the ToolTip code that I posted. There is no flicker and only the number changes while the background seemingly stays the same. I am not a programmer, although most of the time I can hack my way through a program and get a rough idea of what is going on. I want to use the countdown SpashTextOn to display on our emergency room monitors to let ER personel know that things are still running in the background and they just have to wait the specified amount of time until the main program starts back up. I already use SplashTextOn to display a static message "Please wait while xxx program starts" but I would like to give the viewer an idea of how long they have to wait. The ToolTip code does exactly what I want to do and I would use it if I could figure out how to make the text larger.

[MvGulik]

whatever Edited February 7, 2011 by MvGulik

[RobertH]

Compare this

$message = $message & $x & @LF

to this

$message = $x & @LF

and your set to go.

Thanks MvGulik, I didn't realize it was so simple. I feel so sheepish . Check out the finished product.

; Application Starting Countdown
$X = 0
$Y = 30
$message = ""
$message1 = "Application Starting in " & $message
SplashTextOn("Please wait!", $message, 480, 80, -1, -1, 4, "", 30)
While $Y > $X
    $message = $Y & @LF
    ControlSetText("Please wait!", "", "Static1", $message1 & $message)
    sleep(1000)
    $Y = $Y - 1
WEnd

Edited January 19, 2010 by RobertH