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I'm working with a Timer Widget that needs to be able to count both up and down. I figured out part of the script to change the clock's direction (clock.direction = 0 or 1). It looks like when the clock is counting up, it's fine. When I reverse it's direction it resets to 0:00 - I want it to count down from where the clock was last stopped.

Do I need to copy/set the clock time before resuming the clock? When I had the clock resume counting up, it picked up where it left off.

Or do I need to have 2 clocks to accomplish this? And can I copy one clock's value to another?

You can get the current timer value using the "TimerValue" property and you can set it that way as well.
Here is a script that starts counting up, and one that starts counting down..
I attached these to two keyboard macros and can toggle between Up/Down with them.


dim wid as xpClockTimerWidget
dim val as long
engine.GetWidgetByName("ClockTimer2", wid)
wid.Stop
val = wid.TimerValue
wid.Direction = ClockTimerDirection.ctd_Up
wid.TimerValue = val
wid.Start



dim wid as xpClockTimerWidget
dim val as long
engine.GetWidgetByName("ClockTimer2", wid)
wid.Stop
val = wid.TimerValue
wid.Direction = ClockTimerDirection.ctd_Down
wid.TimerValue = val
wid.Start

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Makes perfect sense... thanks Brian!
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