Well everyone has his own script style :D and mine script style is that one what i posted :)

but ty for other suggestions

I've found another method to go about the count script:

alias count {
  $iif($isfile(count.txt),write -c count.txt) | var %w write count.txt
  var %t tokenize 32, %n $iif($regex($$1,/(up|down)$/iS),$$?"Enter a number:") 
  while ($0 <= $!) %t $1- $v1 | %t $iif($regml(1) = up,$2-,$sorttok($2-,32,nr))
  %w $1 | %w $* | .play $iif(#,#,-e) count.txt
}

Commands is either /count up or /count down
Then once a popup shows up, just enter a SINGLE number. No "1" is needed.

It's smaller than sunslayer's :P

Gee, thanks for the input, Jaytea and sunslayer. Oh sunslayer, that was an unintentional typo...:p

Download's method, in its simplicity, is arguably the best method here (as far as just performing the count up or count down is concerned) :P it can be useful to abstract and combine in the way sunslayer did, but oftentimes it's just not suitable and leads to less efficient and less readable code.

that said, here's another method (without any validation) that uses $timer().reps as a counter:

alias count .timercount $calc(($1 - $2) ^ 2 ^ .5 + 1) 1 say $!calc( $2 $iif($1 < $2, -) +$timer(count).reps)

you can combine the two aliases into one

alias count {
  .noop $regsubex($1 $$2,/(\d*)\W(\d*)/,)
  var %v1 = $regml(1),%v2 = $regml(2),%v = $iif(%v1 < %v2,+,-),%a = 0
  while ($counttrue(%v1,%v2,%v)) {
    .timercounter [ $+ [ %a ] ] 1 %a $iif(#,say,echo -a) %v1
    $iif(%v = +,inc %v1,dec %v1)
    inc %a
  }
}
alias -l counttrue { return $iif(($1 <= $2 && $3 = +) || ($1 >= $2 && $3 = -),1,0) }

depending on whether $1 < $2 it will count up/down
and btw Jethro_> Just enter a single number grater than 1 to count.

Yeah my mistake. I saw it wrong.

Jethro_ my alias works fine for me:

/countdown 3 1
23:38:51 3
23:38:52 2
23:38:53 1

Download, your countdown alias won't work. Your use the >= and you decreased it from 1 - it won't do a thing. To fix that and the workaround is:

alias countdown {
  var %i $$1
  while (%i <= $iif($$2 isnum,$2)) {
    inc %down 1
    .timer.down. $+ %down 1 %down echo -a $calc($calc($2 - %i)+1)
    inc %i
  }
  unset %down
}

You have to make a check to ensure that the $2 entered is a number, not something else.

If I were you, I'd do it with regsubex, and I don't need to specify the $1 to have a countdown:

alias countup {
  tokenize 32 $regsubex($str(.,$iif($$1 isnum,$1)),/(.)/g,$+($chr(32),\n)) 
  scon -r .timer 1 $!calc( $* * 1) $iif(#,say,echo -a) $*
}
alias countdown {
  tokenize 32 $sorttok($regsubex($str(.,$iif($$1 isnum,$1)),/(.)/g,$+($chr(32),\n)),32,nr) 
  $iif(#,say,echo -a) $*
}

Just enter a single number grater than 1 to count.