Pause timer

[colindean]

I can find the option to reset the timer, but I can't pause it. I think this would be useful.

[kou]

Could you show a use case for the feature?

FYI: I'm using reset the time feature for rehearsals in my room.

[colindean]

A perfect use case comes from a talk I did last night. The camera stopped recording the talk, and the host wanted to reset the camera. While he was doing that, he decided to allow everyone to go to the bathroom, get more food, etc. After that break, my timer was then meaningless. Resetting the timer wouldn't have really worked, because I was already about halfway through my talk.

I ended up going about 20 minutes over :-( but none stopped me because people were interested enough to stick around.

[kou]

Oh... It's an unfortunate accident...

none stopped me because people were interested enough to stick around.

It seems that your talk is a good talk. :-)
If you want to publish your slide on the Internet, how about using Rabbit Slide Show site? You can publish your slide by pushing your slide to RubyGems.org as a gem. See the document how to publish your slide on Rabbit Slide Show:
http://rabbit-shocker.org/en/usage/rabbit-slide.html
Oh... The page isn't translated yet... I'll translate it from Japanese page...: http://rabbit-shocker.org/ja/usage/rabbit-slide.html

About pause timer feature, I am negative to implement it. Because I will not be able to remember the feature when I got an accident. If I don't remember the feature, I can't use the feature. :<

[colindean]

If I could figure out how to add the pause feature, would you accept it as a pull request?

[kou]

It may be difficult because we don't have timer object yet.
The current implementation uses count down approach instead of timer object. https://github.com/rabbit-shocker/rabbit/blob/master/lib/rabbit/canvas.rb#L628

If you use timer object approach, I will merge it.

[kou]

FYI: I've translated the documentation about rabbit-slide command: http://rabbit-shocker.org/en/usage/rabbit-slide.html