Countdown timer for Captivate 5

Hey! I'm trying to find two types of countdown timers. One that would display during a slide and the other that can span a few slides (i.e. you have 5 minutes to do the questions on these 3 slides). Anyone know of any widgets like this? I saw the following timer, but it seems to be for Captivate 4 - http://forums.adobe.com/click.jspa?searchID=5036774&objectType=2&objectID=2505616
I guess for the first timer, I could simply have the user look at the countdown timer at the bottom of the screen....
Thanks for any suggestions.

Hello,
I'm preparing a blog post on the default widgets that come with CP5, but lack of time... Hope to make it this week.
Anyway there is an interesting widget 'Timer' included. You can set a maximum, let it count up or count down, put it in analog or digital mode etc.
If you put the widget on a master slide the counter will restart for each slide. If you put it on a slide and set it to display for the rest of the project, it will continue timing. As you can hide any object on a later slide using an action or an advanced action, this is the way to go if you want a timer for a sequence of slides. I blogged about Hiding objects, here is the link:
Playing Hide-and-Seek
You can also create a custom timer by using the system variable cpInfoElapsedTimeMS. Tried to explain that workflow in another blog post (was for a Quiz, but is also possible for any other slide):
Quiz slide showing elapsed time
Lilybiri

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