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

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

Oh, ok. Even more scratching.

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

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

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

smurfier wrote: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:
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?

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

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

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: 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)

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.