Timer Countdown Update

Games
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Hey guys I need some help. How would I go about setting up a timer countdown from 20 seconds? I have seen some examples of this but as i’m new to coding I never got how it works. 

 

All I have so far is the initial set up to it. If there is a better way to do this then thats better too.

 

timeBar = display.newImage('timeBar.png', 280) timeLeft = display.newText('20', 175, -2, native.systemFontBold, 14) timeLeft:setTextColor(0)

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

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anyone? any help would be great.

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anyone? any help would be great.

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try this

local time = 60 local function decreaseTime() time = time-1 print(time) end timer.performWithDelay(1000,decreaseTime,60)
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Hi Dip,

I have a countdown timer of 10 seconds in my app. This is how I do mine.

[lua]

timerText = display.newText( “”, 420, 180, native.systemFont, 22)

timerText:setTextColor( 255, 255, 255 )

screenGroup:insert( timerText )

function gameOver()

        if countDown == 0 then

                timeBut:removeEventListener( “touch”, timeBut )

                countDown = 0

                currentTime = countDown

                timerText.text = countDown

                timer.performWithDelay(3000, delay_trans)

        end

        timerText.text = countDown

        currentTime = countDown

        countDown = countDown - 1

end

countDownTimer = timer.performWithDelay( 1000, gameOver, 11 )

[/lua]

The if countDown == 0 loop, is just what I do next when my clock reaches 0, you do not need use it if you don’t want to

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try this

local time = 60 local function decreaseTime() time = time-1 print(time) end timer.performWithDelay(1000,decreaseTime,60)
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Hi Dip,

I have a countdown timer of 10 seconds in my app. This is how I do mine.

[lua]

timerText = display.newText( “”, 420, 180, native.systemFont, 22)

timerText:setTextColor( 255, 255, 255 )

screenGroup:insert( timerText )

function gameOver()

        if countDown == 0 then

                timeBut:removeEventListener( “touch”, timeBut )

                countDown = 0

                currentTime = countDown

                timerText.text = countDown

                timer.performWithDelay(3000, delay_trans)

        end

        timerText.text = countDown

        currentTime = countDown

        countDown = countDown - 1

end

countDownTimer = timer.performWithDelay( 1000, gameOver, 11 )

[/lua]

The if countDown == 0 loop, is just what I do next when my clock reaches 0, you do not need use it if you don’t want to

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Wow thanks guys for helping me.

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Wow thanks guys for helping me.