Expression for Digital 24 Hours clock

[Dan Ebberts]

24 hour count down clock (expression for text layer source text):

// 24 hour count down clock

beginHr = 23;
beginMin = 59;
beginSec = 59;
beginHun = 0;

beginTime = (beginHr*60 + beginMin)*60 + beginMin + beginHun/100;

function digits(myVal,myNumDigits){
var s = myVal.toString();
while (s.length < myNumDigits) s = '0' + s; return s; } currTime = beginTime - time; hr = digits(Math.floor(currTime/3600),2); min = digits(Math.floor((currTime%3600)/60),2); sec = digits(Math.floor(currTime)%60,2); hun = digits(Math.floor(currTime%1*100),2); hr + ":" + min + ":" + sec + "." + hun Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

You’d think I’d have learned by now to always try it before posting. This should work better:

beginHr = 3;
beginMin = 0;
beginSec = 1;
beginHun = 0;

beginTime = (beginHr*60 + beginMin)*60 + beginSec + beginHun/100;

function digits(myVal,myNumDigits){
var s = myVal.toString();
while (s.length < myNumDigits) s = '0' + s; return s; } currTime = beginTime - time; hr = digits(Math.floor(currTime/3600),2); min = digits(Math.floor((currTime%3600)/60),2); sec = digits(Math.floor(currTime)%60,2); hun = digits(Math.floor(currTime%1*100),2); hr + ":" + min + ":" + sec + "." + hun Dan

[Gilben]

Dan

Thank you very vewry much for your serious respond.
i will try it your way

i quess i should take some tutorials in expression methods.

thanx alot.
Gil

[Matthewb]

Dan/Anyone

what is taking place here in your expression:
function digits(myVal,myNumDigits){
var s = myVal.toString();
while (s.length < myNumDigits) s = '0' + s; return s; } i can follow the rest but am having trouble with what "function" is performing (adobe help, wasnt) then waht is the digits command accomplishing... s i take it is getting the length of myVal i think i can figure it from there... just am not sure what is happening at the beginning... i have to write a clock that starts at a specific point and stops at a specific point over a specified period... i.e. clock starts at 30.0 seconds and over 2 second climb to 43.14 seconds. thanks,