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how do i make a timer using textlabel startergui?

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5 years ago

1if script.Parent.Parent.Started.Value == true then
2    --timer script 5 min
3end

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Answered by

karlo_tr10 1233

5 years ago

Edited 5 years ago

StarterPlayerScripts

01local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
02local Label = Player.PlayerGui:WaitForChild("ScreenGui").TextLabel
03local InGame = 300
04 
05script.Parent.Parent.Started.Changed:Connect(function()
06    if script.Parent.Parent.Started.Value == true then
07        for i=300,1,-1 do
08            InGame = InGame-1
09            if InGame < 10 then
10                Label.Text = "0:0"..tostring(InGame)
11            else if InGame < 60 then
12                Label.Text = "0:"..tostring(InGame)
13            else if InGame >= 60 then  
14                        local minutes = math.floor(InGame/60)
15                        local sec = InGame-minutes*60
16                        if sec < 10  then
17                            Label.Text = tostring(minutes)..":0"..tostring(sec)
18                        else
19                            Label.Text = tostring(minutes)..":"..tostring(sec)
20                        end
21                    end
22                end
23            end
24            wait(1)
25        end
26    end
27end)
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script.Parent.Parent.Started.Changed:Connect(function() if script.Parent.Parent.Started.Value == true then end end) karlo_tr10 1233 — 5y

do you have something like this? karlo_tr10 1233 — 5y

https://gyazo.com/fa4b9d23ec476e9e60cf8f941d3c813f https://gyazo.com/486b232d7c3f6ee2bf94ba96b7d28c91 didnt work GamingWithFlight 80 — 5y

Answered by

Unhumanly 152

5 years ago

Edited 5 years ago

The first half of the while loop will be formatting the time to look like an actual clock, with zeroes that fill in spaces that aren't being used. If the time was 4 minutes and 5 seconds, it would look like 04:05.

You'll need to figure out whether the number of seconds left is a single digit or a double digit. You can do this by determining whether or not it's greater than 9.

01local Label = script.Parent
02local Minutes = 5
03local Seconds = 0
04 
05while true do
06    if Seconds > 9 then
07        if Minutes > 9 then
08            Label.Text = Minutes .. ":" .. Seconds
09        else
10            Label.Text = "0" .. Minutes .. ":" .. Seconds
11        end
12    else
13 
14    end
15end

Let me explain what lines 6-11 do. Line 6 checks to see whether or not the number of seconds is a single digit number. If it is, then on line 7 we need to figure out if the number of minutes is a single digit or a double digit number. Line 8 will run if the number of seconds and the number of minutes is a double digit number. We want the clock to have 4 digits, divided by a colon in the middle at all times, but since we have two numbers that are double digits, we can just concatenate the strings without adding any placeholder zeroes. Line 10 runs if the seconds are double digits, but not the minutes, so it places a zero before the number of minutes.

01local Label = script.Parent
02local Minutes = 5
03local Seconds = 0
04 
05while true do
06    if Seconds > 9 then
07        if Minutes > 9 then
08            Label.Text = Minutes .. ":" .. Seconds
09        else
10            Label.Text = "0" .. Minutes .. ":" .. Seconds
11        end
12    else
13        if Minutes > 9 then
14            Label.Text = Minutes .. ":0" .. Seconds
15        else
16            Label.Text = "0" .. Minutes .. ":0" .. Seconds
17        end
18    end
19end

Lines 13-17 do almost the exact same thing, except we know that the number of seconds is a single digit, meaning we just have to add a zero before the seconds.

Now that the formatting is done, all we have to do is actually subtract seconds and minutes so it counts down.

01local Label = script.Parent
02local Minutes = 5
03local Seconds = 0
04 
05while true do
06    if Seconds > 9 then
07        if Minutes > 9 then
08            Label.Text = Minutes .. ":" .. Seconds
09        else
10            Label.Text = "0" .. Minutes .. ":" .. Seconds
11        end
12    else
13        if Minutes > 9 then
14            Label.Text = Minutes .. ":0" .. Seconds
15        else
16            Label.Text = "0" .. Minutes .. ":0" .. Seconds
17        end
18    end
19end
20 
21if Seconds > 0 then
22    Seconds = Seconds - 1
23else
24    if Minutes > 0 then
25        Minutes = Minutes - 1
26        Seconds = 59
27    else
28        break
29    end
30end
31 
32wait(1)
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The way a clock works is it looks at the seconds first, sees if it can subtract a second, and subtracts a second if it can.

That's what line 21 is doing. If the number of seconds is greater than zero, then subtract 1 second.

If it IS zero, then run lines 24-29. Those lines will look at the minutes and make sure that we can subtract a minute. If we can, subtract a minute and set the seconds to 59. If not, that means the seconds is 0 and the minutes is 0, which means the timer has finished, and we can break.

And obviously, we have to wait 1 second for every second that is going to be subtracted.

I know there was another answer, but the person who posted it didn't go into detail about it.

I already answered it karlo_tr10 1233 — 5y

"I know there was another answer, but the person who posted it didn't go into detail about it." Unhumanly 152 — 5y

Throwing a bunch of code at them that looks complicated is just going to overwhelm them. Unhumanly 152 — 5y

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