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2010-03-18 17:50:18
sarja
Registered: Mar 18 2010
Posts: 3

I'm trying to make a form for music tracks.

When I custom set the time field to MM:ss for minutes and seconds, it doesn't seem to recognize it and takes the second value and turns it into the minute.
(01:34 would be turned into 34:00)
how do i fix this?

second, i know i need javascript to add all the time fields together to make a total time box for all the tracks combined. can anyone help me out with a code to do this?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.1.7, Macintosh
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2010-03-18 18:10:15
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jimhealy
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Registered: Jan 2 2006
Posts: 146
Do you want them to be able to enter more than 60 minutes or seconds?

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2010-03-19 05:10:30
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sarja
Registered: Mar 18 2010
Posts: 3
no, not necessarily.

for example i want something like this:


SIDE A
song 01 - 00:58
song 02 - 02:34
song 03 - 01:27
song 04 - 01:38
song 05 - 02: 12

SIDE A total time (to be added automatically as i enter each song time)

when i'm building the form and my text boxes are set to times, it's unable to add the times together. when i try to make a total box, and telling it to calculate the sums of all the previous boxes, it just messes up.
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2010-03-19 05:28:18
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try67
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Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2399
I think you'll need to do it manually.
- Split the strings by ":"
- Add the minutes.
- Add the seconds.
- Divide the seconds by 60 and add the result to the minutes. Keep the remainder as the seconds.
- If you want, do the same as above with the minutes to get the hours.

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