Here’s a Countdown timer programmed by UEZ. He kindly commented the heck out of it so others can learn from it. It will accept two command line parameters: the countdown time and a scaling factor (if you wish to make it smaller). See the comments. If you wish to read about its origins and some of the discoveries leading up to it, start >here. Once I added a skeuomorphic GUI to the countdown timer visual glitches appeared. I started >this thread as I tried to chase down double-buffe