Teach Apple Script to count seconds

[nicki]

do you hava an idea, how I can teach Apple Script to count the seconds from one button-cklick to an other???

thank you… nicki

[Mytzlscript]

set intWait to the text returned of (display dialog "Start timer" default answer "5" buttons {"Go"} default button 1)
set startTime to current date
--do some stuff
delay intWait
set endTime to current date
set timeElapsed to endTime - startTime
display dialog (timeElapsed & " seconds elapsed." as string)

[dudehey]

Might want to change that to
delay (intWait as integer)

if that is what you want to do…

[Camelot]

Or, reading it the other way around (measuring the time between clicks):

set dialog1 to display dialog “Click to start” buttons {“Start”} default button 1
set startTime to (get current date)
set dialog2 to display dialog “Click to end” buttons {“End”} default button 1
set endTime to (get current date)
set elapsedTime to endTime - startTime
display dialog “You took " & elapsedTime & " seconds to click the button”

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[Mytzlscript]

Might want to change that to
delay (intWait as integer)

Quite right, so sorry about that. I have a stupid and annoying habit of testing OSX scripts on my 9x station - and I think Jon’s Command performed the coercion to integer which made it work fine as I posted it. I will stop doing that.

Sorry Nicki