Hi guys and gals,new plugin released. Countdown, add a date and time to your control panel, and this screen will countdown to that date by Days, hours, minutes and seconds. Works great on iPhone and iPad. Some of you guys have used html to show countdowns, this is now native. As always have added a few extra features, has a notify option, uses local notifications so a user can be reminded when the countdown is about to reach zero. Defaults are on zero, 1 hour before and one day before. these can be enabled in the control panel and are not a necessity. (Can only be used in countdown screen per app) Also a timed button is available and only accessible when the countdown reaches zero. This can be used to access a different screen of your choice.Again this can be switched on or off in the control panel. A lot is customisable in the control panel, further mods are possible within the code and will be happy to help people who wish to modify font type, or change the reminder times. (I didn't want to overcomplicate matters) Any issues don't hesitate to PM me You can see it in action at www.youtube.com/kittsapps

Excellent Kittsy!

i was about to go to rest time to play around with this new plugin sleep can wait lol

It's a fun addition if your app has events involved. This is my first attempt with local notifications, hoping it works as planned.

Awesome stuff Kittsy. So glad to have it "officially". @David how do i set my control panel to automatically download @Kittsy's plugins ?? ;)

Nice Job, again, Kittsy! :) Cheers! -- Smug

Very nice. Any chance Android will be coming? I market all my apps on both markets so unfortunately I'm going to have to wait to buy till then. Tim

Very nice @Kittsy! LA

Just Awesome. This is a marketers DREAM for apps. Between this and the upcoming voucher screen - you're giving tons of small businesses an incredibly inexpensive way to make some killer apps with great features. Think about it - almost everything is a countdown to something. Limitless uses. My list just keeps growing with ideas. Purchased, added to the control panel. $5.99 is a complete steal. Someone report a crime. Thanks!! Wondering how hard to find an Android compatible type screen - I know some folks have used jquery. I use some plain javascript. Anyone good/working suggestions?

LOL. I started using AT as a prefix to my plugins so that they would sort to the top when I was looking at the package explorer. Your new AK extension is now at the top of my lists. I shoulda picked AA, I was gonna... !

Thanks guys, once i sell enough plugins to buy a nice newer mac, I will probably start the android versions as eclipse brings this mac to a crawl.

Hey guys, can anyone help me make this into a splash screen? I want just the basics, header image, none of the extra's as per above, I would like to have screen launch as splash screen and wait for the user to tap to continue to the home page, it will be a tabbed layout... If anyone can help me, please let me know, I need this quite urgently, going to be submitting it to apple as soon as new self hosting is done. Cheers Kristen

@kaybee I started doing this for you the other day and got side tracked I'll take another look tonight

Thanks The Plugin Ninja !!

Well done @Kittsy. You did say this plugin was on the way, so great to see it available now. I will certainly be downloading it for my Paddy’s Day app! Any news on your FB/Twitter link for the quiz results? Where are you on completing that plugin? Thanks and keep up the good work!!!!

Looking forward to seeing more plugins from @Kittsy!

@Kittsy Brilliant plugin, thanks for your work! Question: How is the "Access" button supposed to work? I don't seem to see any settings for it in the control panel. Is it supposed to link to a screen? A little clarification would be wonderful. Thanks, Andy PS- I didn't see a document or manual in the plugin download, so if I've missed this somewhere, I apologize.

@andydahl, The access button is the "Time Out Button" section of the control panel. You can select to show it or hide it, if you select to show it then you select what screen should the app go to once the timer has reached zero and is tapped. You could make it a surprise screen etc... Shout if you need more help.

@Kaybee Thanks for the tip! But when I hide the "time out button", it doesn't seem to work. It's still showing. This is in the self-hosted version. Maybe @Kittsy can look into this for me? Thanks again! Andy

aah, you are right. @Kittsy will need to look at it, it was working on an earlier version that I was testing. If you need to hide it urgently just delete the button in the interface view of the .xib file. Although that won't help you long term.

Thanks for the verification. It's not urgent, but I would love to see a fix soon. I'm publishing within a couple of weeks and would love to have it working. I'd also love to be able to easily customize the wording on the button. Thanks again for your help! Andy

I'm not at my mac I will get straight on it when I get home. Sorry for the inconvenience

Add the below to the view did appear method, just before, [self getCountDown]; //Option to hide button if([[BT_strings getJsonPropertyValue:screenData.jsonVars:@"showSecret":@"1"]integerValue] == 1) { secretButton.hidden = YES; }else{ secretButton.hidden = NO; } Sorry for the inconvenience, don't know where these lines of code disappeared to. I will get an update sent to Susan

Kittsy, No worries! Thanks for the fast turn-around. I will update this evening! Andy

You will have to wait for the proper update, (hopefully not long) but it's easy to add that line of code

got it going… looks fab!

good stuff looking forward to seeing an app with it in