Example:
Pausing between actions

In this example, we'll show you how to make your AutoPlay application pause between two actions. For fun, we'll use this ability to create a simple "countdown" timer to count down from 3 after the page is displayed.

Here's what the action list looks like:

It's actually quite simple—you just use an "Application - Sleep" action wherever you want the AutoPlay application to wait.

The first "Application - Sleep" action pauses for half a second, just to show you that you can pause for less than a second if you want. (You can use really small values, too, like 0.0001 if you want the pause to be really short.)

Then we use a "Page - Show Object" action to display our Text Object, which we named "Countdown". It's already set to display "3", so we just have to show it at this point, not set it to anything.

Next, we use another "Application - Sleep" action to pause for one second.

Then we use a "Text Object - Set Text" action to change the text in our Text Object from "3" to "2".

We keep doing this until we've counted down to 0, at which point we just hide the Text Object with a "Page - Hide Object" action.

Here's a link to the finished example, as an AutoPlay Media Studio 4.0 page that you can import into your own project:

Pausing_between_actions.pg4