Countdown example

Thanks for the tip - it' pretty elegant. I was just wondering if Construct had a way to display a leading zero - ex 1:03, 1:02, 1:01,....

From here: scirra.com/manual/126/system-expressions

zeropad(number, digits)

Pad number out to a certain number of digits by adding zeroes in front of the number, then returning the result as a string. For example, zeropad(45, 5) returns the string "00045".

So you want zeropad(timer,2)

In r100 and firefox it only counts down to 19.. :-/

Hey Mipey,

i got my counter to work...how do I have it stop at zero, as well as stop the game...and have a text that says Times Up...

so this is what I have so far..but when it gets to -1 it goes to 0 and back and forth..so it keeps on hitting -1 and 0..-1 and zero...

not sure how to get it to stop at 0

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Straight to the point! Thanks

Uh oh, this example is a bit outdated, considering it was made when dinosaurs still stomped their footprints in. ;)

snake85027: it is still counting down, to make it stop, you need to add a condition to only count down while the number is above 0. Put TimerCountDown > 0 in the first event.

Thanks I need a nice simple quick win, that was it

The function works well,but I wonder how to add leading zero when time reaches 9 seconds.

I need to display 0:09 instead of 0:9

Try zeropad:

https://www.scirra.com/manual/126/system-expressions

In your case, zeropad(9,2) will make it "09".

The file is not there

Thanks for sharing this!

The file can not be downloaded

The file is not in dropbox anymore. Could you reupload it?

Can anyone update or share a timer countdown example please? The files and links are not actives...