Creating Independent Counters

[Seahorse]

Not the counter, what I'm doing with it - maths...

[KreAch3R]

Not the counter, what I'm doing with it - maths...

Oh, ok. Even more scratching.

[smurfier]

Disabling the counter would make it's value 0. To actually stop it while retaining the value:

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[Counter]
Measure=Calc
Formula=Counter+(Counter<#Value#)

[KreAch3R]

Beautiful. Wouldn't that work the same as pausing it, however? It provides some additional functionality, nevertheless.

[smurfier]

Yes, that would basically pause the counter at the given value.

[Seahorse]

Having it reset after a given value is easy and is accomplished the same way as if you were using the Counter variable.

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[cCounter]
Measure=Calc
Formula=(cCounter+1)%31

This will have the counter reset to zero after it hits 30. Always add 1 to whatever value you want it to reset after otherwise it will reset at that value.

There is a pause after the last number before it starts counting up again, is there a way of removing this? my test skin is counting to 4:

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[CalcCounter]
Measure=Calc
Formula=(CalcCounter+1)%5

but there is clearly a 2 second wait (Update=1000) after 4 before it starts again, i.e. gets to %5, then counts another second before triggering - making a total of 6 seconds total elapsed time for something I am trying to do in 5?

[smurfier]

There should not be a delay like that, or at least none that I have experienced.

Also, if you want it to count 1-4 instead of 0-4 use (cCounter%4)+1

[Seahorse]

Delay is there I can time it. Your suggestion removes the problem:

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[CalcCounter]
Measure=Calc
Formula=(CalcCounter%4)+1

[KreAch3R]

Just a post to cover something that isn't completely covered on the awesome first post:

You can make a counter reset automatically using %value and reset manually using a variable:

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[ScrollCounter]
Measure=Calc
Formula=((ScrollCounter+1)*#restart1#)%61
DynamicVariables=1
IfEqualValue=60
IfEqualAction=!Execute !bangs
IfBelowValue=1
IfBelowAction=!SetVariable restart1 1

In this example, it's a counter that automatically counts till 60, where it restarts and fires !bangs. But I wanted to restart the counter each time I was pressing a button. So the above code will work. I am using it in Kaelri's Evereader, to make the pages scroll automatically, and restart the scroll counter each time I click to see a page (so that I don't see the page for a few seconds before the counter takes it away from me)

[smurfier]

To be honest I covered it as well as I felt was necessary. Also, you should be able to cut back on the parenthesis by following the order of operations.

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[ScrollCounter]
Measure=Calc
Formula=(ScrollCounter+1)%61*#restart1#
DynamicVariables=1
IfEqualValue=60
IfEqualAction=!Execute !bangs
IfBelowValue=1
IfBelowAction=!SetVariable restart1 1