How to make a timer start when a text button is pressed?
I am making a game where when a frame pops up asking if you accept the challenge, a timer should start after you hit the button and end once you complete the challenge. Most of the timer scripts I find have the timer starting as soon as the server opens. How do I go about doing this?
The closest thing I've found to what I want to happen is:
local text = script.Parent
local seconds = 59
local minutes = 14
local secondsDisplay = ""
local minutesDisplay = ""
for m = minutes, 0, -1 do
if m < 10 then
minutesDisplay = "0"..m
else
minutesDisplay = m
end
for s = seconds, 0, -1 do
if seconds > 59 then
s = 59
end
if s < 10 then
secondsDisplay = "0"..s
else
secondsDisplay = s
end
text.Text = minutesDisplay..":"..secondsDisplay
wait(1)
end
end
The problem is that it starts as soon as the server opens and I need it to wait until the accept button is clicked.
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2 answers
TICK()
Tick() provides the time in seconds that has passed since 1st of January of 1970. It actually provides quite a few uses.
In this case, we would want to get the time since the invitation got accepted
local AcceptButtonName = "Accept"; -- the name of the accept button
local DeclineName = "Decline"
local Count = false
local tim = tick()
function AcceptedInvite()
local AcceptedTime = tick()
local Difference = (tim - AcceptedTime)
return Difference
end
script.Parent[AcceptButtonName].Activated:Connect(function()
Count = true
end)
script.Parent[DeclineName].Activated:Connect(function()
Count = false
end)
while wait(1) do
if Count == true then
local Current = AcceptedInvite()
print(Current)
end
end
local timerbutton = game.StarterGui.Button --make a button timerbutton.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function() for i = 1, 10, 1 do timerbutton.Text = i end end)