4mula1;343657 Wrote: > > This may be an odd request, but I have some needs for a timer with > intermediate alarms. My best example is my frozen fish + mac n cheese. > Total time is 18 minutes, 8 minutes in I need to start the mac n > cheese, then 12 minutes in I need to flip the fish. After 18 minutes > the fish come out of the oven and the mac n cheese off of the stovetop. > Right now I juggle two timers and it's somewhat of a PITA. > Intermediate points would be awesome!!!
I've given that some thought, but haven't come up with a good plan. I think of this as "linking" timers, and it seems to me there are two different ways timers would normally be linked. For tasks like flipping, turning, stirring, etc., you'd want the second timer to start when the first ran out, even if you didn't immediately indicate that you'd done the flip/turn/stir task. For tasks like "now that the dough has risen, punch it down and start baking the loaf", you don't want the second timer starting until you've done the first task. I think linkages should probably be fully usable (meaning creating & managing them, too) from the player/VFD UI. I'm not sure how best to do that, or if it's worth the effort (for me). :-/ Sue -- thanks, as always, for the success story! -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMenu FuzzyTime KitchenTimer PlayLog PowerCenter/BottleRocket SaverSwitcher SettingsManager SleepFade StatusFirst SyncOptions VolumeLock ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52710 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
