Countdown timer untill ship date??!?

[M. Hicken]

As the title says, does anyone have a downloadable timer that i can program to count down on my desk top? I looked through google, and tried download.com, they were all 24 hrs or less, does anyone know where i can download such a clock? Sorry, couldent see a better forum to post this in, it isnt really off toipc.


Thanks,

Marcus

[NoRemorse]

www.bedfordexpress.com (http://www.bedfordexpress.com)

its a flash coutdown. you can use it if you want, but give our team some recognition for it
;)

[M. Hicken]

that i will, thanks alot
is there any way i could get a copy of the program or something i could save to my comp, so i wont have to log onto your site everytime i want to look at the time? As you can see, im not the best with computers, flash in particlar

[Rickertsen2]

that i will, thanks alot
is there any way i could get a copy of the program or something i could save to my comp, so i wont have to log onto your site everytime i want to look at the time? As you can see, im not the best with computers, flash in particlar
sure, you can put in an html file and then set that as your desktop.

[Chris Bright]

http://bedfordexpress.com/downloads/2004_shipcount.zip
Here is a link to the flash movie in a zip file. just download it and unzip. When you click on the file you should be able to view it anytime.

[M. Hicken]

since i recently reformat my copm, i needed to reinstal flash, now it says that i can not open this file, it is an .swf, which is totally new to me
sorry, i appreciate your effort

[Gamer930]

They would still need the .swt file that contains the actual body of the flash program. The .swf is just like the viewer

I may be wrong on that. Been awhile since I played with flash

[briholton]

nice work, i now have a timer on my desktop!! thanks.

[M. Hicken]

its still not working, once i open the file, it says windows can not open the file, because it does not know where it was made?? then it brings up this page http://shell.windows.com/fileassoc/0409/xml/redir.asp?Ext=swf I downloaded flash, and its still not working... any other suggestions for someone who has no clue what they are doing?

[echos]

Here is a html that you can put on your desktop.

[J Flex 188]

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[Adam Shapiro]

Love the flash timer! I think the next step will have to be 3D! I guess that's just one more projecet (along with Dashboard3D) that Tri5 Software and 555 will have to tackle ASAP!! :D I think I'll start working on it now!

[edomus]

how do I put the html on my desktop

[Chris Bright]

I just found something I did wrong with the timer. I used the same one for a countdown to kickoff and I forgot to change the message at the end! I replaced the file in my post above with a fixed copy. Sorry about that guys.

[Chris Bright]

I updated the countdown time for the new ship date. Enjoy.
http:\\www.bedfordexpress.com\downloads\2004_shipc ount(updated).zip (www.bedfordexpress.com\downloads\2004_shipcount(u pdated).zip)

[charlie_grr]

here's some basic java that we use on our site


<SCRIPT>
//change your event date event here.
var eventdate = new Date("Feb 26, 2004 12:00:00 PST");

function toSt(n)
{s=""
if(n<10) s+="0"
return s+n.toString();
}

function countdown()
{cl=document.clock;
d=new Date();
count=Math.floor((eventdate.getTime()-d.getTime())/1000);
if(count<=0)
{cl.days.value ="----";
cl.hours.value="--";
cl.mins.value="--";
cl.secs.value="--";
return;
}
cl.secs.value=toSt(count%60);
count=Math.floor(count/60);
cl.mins.value=toSt(count%60);
count=Math.floor(count/60);
cl.hours.value=toSt(count%24);
count=Math.floor(count/24);
cl.days.value=count;

setTimeout("countdown()",500);
}
// end script -->
</SCRIPT>

[Racer26]

i wrote a countdown timer in vb6 a while back, you can set it to count down to any day and time... i can send it to you if you want... email me... whodoyacallit@hotmail.com it sits happily centered at the top edge of your screen, dates farther than a month away arent perfect, but i'm close... you can even have it tell you what you're counting down to (in case you forget) HA!