Conference Timer: Setup Manual

Usage

Put the flash file (conf_timer.swf) and a html file (an example of 20 minutes talk) as a configuration file in a directory. The behavior of the timer is set by the html file. Tuning of the html file is the following.

An example of the html file:
20 minutes talk (a bell at 10 min left, two bells at 5 min left, a buzzer at the end of the talk, and buzzers at intervals of 5 minute after the end).

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
<style type="text/css">
body {	background: #000000; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; text-align: center;
	overflow-x:hidden; overflow-y:hidden; }
</style>
<title>Conference Timer : 20 minutes talk</title>
</head>
<body>
<object>
 <embed src="conf_timer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
   width="1024" height="768" quality="high"
   FlashVars="time0=1200&time1=600&mode1=1&time2=300&mode2=2&timeZ=0&modeZ=-1&timeB=300&modeB=-1">
 </embed>
</object>
</body>
</html>

The time-tuning buttons with a shift-key can setup the time in second.
The time settings can be controled by the red-colored parts in the html file.
1. time0 : The whole time (sec) of the talk.
2. time1 : The left time (sec) when the bell rings once.
3. mode1 : Specify bell sounds on time1. 1:The bell rings once, 2:twice, -1:buzzers, 0:no sound
4. time2 : The left time (sec) when the bell rings twice.
5. mode2 : Specify bell sounds on time2. 1:The bell rings once, 2:twice, -1:buzzers, 0:no sound
6. timeZ : The time of the end of the talk, ordinally it would be 0.
7. modeZ : Specify bell sounds on timeZ. 1:The bell rings once, 2:twice, -1:buzzers, 0:no sound
8. timeB : The interval (sec) for buzzers after the end of the talk.
9. modeZ : Specify interval buzzer sounds. 1:The bell rings once, 2:twice, -1:buzzers, 0:no sound
The (perfect) fullscreen mode of the browser is useful. For MS/IE, the function key [F11] makes the perfect fullscreen mode. For MS/IE8, you can make "the status bar" disappear by selecting "Tool/Tool bar/ Status bar" in the command bar. If you use the Mozilla/Firefox, please use the Full Fullscreen Add-on or FullerScreen Add-on. You can change the scrren size by the size parameter (the blue-colored values of the width and the height in the above html file)

All of the available flash options (FlashVars) are the following:

FlashVars	Value	Default	Meaning
time0	int (sec)	1200	The whole time of the talk. (Count down starts from this)
time1	int (sec)	600	The left time when the first bell rings.
time2	int (sec)	300	The left time when the second bell rings.
timeZ	int (sec)	0	The time of the end of talk. (Ordinally it would be 0.)
timeB	int (sec)	300	The interval for buzzers after the end of talk.
mode1	-1, 0, 1 or 2	1	It specifies kind of the first sound.
mode2	-1, 0, 1 or 2	2	It specifies kind of the second sound.
modeZ	-1, 0, 1 or 2	-1	It specifies kind of the sound at the end of talk.
modeB	-1, 0, 1 or 2	-1	It specifies kind of the interval sounds.
			1:The bell rings once, 2:twice, -1:buzzers, 0:no sound
nosound	0 or 1	0	No sound mode.
jp	0 or 1	0	Japanese mode.
swap	0 or 1	0	Buttons configulation is swaped.
thin	0 or 1	0	Thin font mode.
noclock	0 or 1	0	The digital clock disappears.
noconfig	0 or 1	0	The configuration panel disappears.

Yukinori NAGATANI (Okayama Institute for Quantum Physics)