EGGTIMER

Name

eggtimer

Purpose (one Line Only)

Widget countdown timer

Description

This program is a non-blocking widget that will count down from a
user modifiable duration. You can run more than one of these at the
same time. Once the time has counted down to zero, the color changes to
red and it starts counting up from the time that the timer expired.

Calling Sequence

eggtimer

Inputs

Optional Input Parameters

ALERTCMD - Optional string that will be executed by the "spawn" command
when the timer expires. This can be used to run a program,
send mail, play a sound, pretty much anything that you want.
The default is to not do anything special.
here's an example of something that works for me to play a sound:
alertcmd='pacat --file-format=wav alert.wav'

Keyword Input Parameters

Outputs

Keyword Output Parameters

Common Blocks

Side Effects

Restrictions

Procedure

Modification History

Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2005/05/06