I trying to make a countdown befor a dialog are closed, and i trying to use "dec", can you slow down dec without the usage of timers? i trying to use "while (%x) {" and display the time in
the dialog, "Closing in %x seconds."

Trying to avoid timers for this.

What about the -c or -z switches?, either of which will decrement the var once per second. (-z unsets the var when it hits 0)