ah .. so much to know :) .. thank you so much for your thoughts .. My quizzing platform is to be like this:
Landing page where you type in name and click "Start Test" When you click "Start Test" the following happens: 1. Countdown timer starts in right hand corner above sidebar (or somewhere else visible) 2. a timestamp (say ts1) is generated 3. You navigate to Question no.1 Answer the Question no.1 (this choice is recorded in a the field of a state tiddler) and click "Next Question" When you click "Next Question" the following happens: 1. a timestamp (say ts2)is generated 2. You navigate to Question no.2 Now ts2 - ts1 will give the time taken to answer question 1 So on... All this while .. the countdown timer (above sidebar) continues and if it becomes 00:00 then irrespective of how many questions are left to be answered it takes you to the "Submit Answers" tiddler which once pressed will do the following: 1. check the answers submitted with an answer key and sort out neatly the answers answered correctly/wrongly/unanswered and you can check out the solutions for each 2. calculate the score 3. send the score and the submitted answers to a google spreadsheet by way of the submit form plugin (by Jed? i guess) So once all have taken the test a ranking can be developed from the data collected in the google sheet and published .... But a countdown plugin can have much more usecases .. for example in the ToDoNow itself we can start a task and the timer starts and once the task is complete the timer stops and is recorded Or even in the Kanban plugin the time a task spent in any category can be noted down etc.... you are right .. much thought must be spent on making a countdown plugin as universal as possible .. looking at all possible use cases .. On Monday, December 11, 2017 at 3:05:45 PM UTC+5:30, PMario wrote: > > On Monday, December 11, 2017 at 9:43:55 AM UTC+1, [email protected] > wrote: >> >> Nope it doesnt .. lots of warnings come up :( >> > > OK ... We are all very "implementation oriented" ... My problem now is, > that you didn't answer any of my questions. > Since the code doesn't do what you want, imo we need to go back to the > whiteboard and define what's needed. > > I can only guess from what you wrote. > > some sort of quizzing platform where a countdown is initiated once the >> quiz starts and once the time is up navigate to a tiddler where responses >> can be submitted >> > > - Do you want 1 timer or several active at the same time? > > Since you want to convert the function to macros ... probably several are > active at the same time. > > > - Should they be pausable / deletable while active? > > In a quiz situation I personally would want to have a possibility to stop > a timer, if I know the answer. ... But that's just me ;) Your usecase may > be completely different, to my thoughts. > > > - What "action" do you want, after the timer has stopped? > > It seems there should be just the text "Time is over" ... But if I can't > stop it, every timer will run into this state. ... ?? > > - What should happen, if the tab, that contains the timer is not visible? > > Many browsers treat code in "inactive" tabs different to code in active > tabs. ... So we may need to take care of this ... > > -------------- > > However i was able to manipulate the $:/plugins/ajh/tiddlytime/time.js in >> http://tiddlytime.tiddlyspot.com/ and was able to get a 1 minute >> countdown timer that displays into {{$:/temp/timer}} and shows"Time Up" at >> the end of the countdown .. >> > > That's great, for someone who is not familar with javascript :) > > >> problem is i dont know how to convert this to a javascript macro >> > > IMO widget. ... I think, we need interaction > > >> .. also the stop watch works from upon startup and i guess this must be >> because of exports.startup .. but when i tried to make it exports.run it >> didnt work as a macro .. >> > > ok. ... That's not the way how it works. ... > > >> I have attached the working sample check it out and let me know :) >> > > I don't have the time to dig into it atm. ... > > But the usecase is definitely interesting. .. Quizzes are always > interesting, and I think we don't have a countdown functionality / plugin > atm. > > So someone else ??? > > have fun! > mario > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/43b97195-feb4-4c21-8ab0-af28aaebbdd8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
