Show Timer in GUIs

[Joe]

Hello everyone

Im making a game which needs to show a timer in a GUI.
I know how to set the timer, I know how to give orders when the timer expires, but I don't know how to show it in a GUI.

Does anybody know how to do?

Thankyou.

[SSH]

This is a beginners question really: in repeatedly_execute:

yourGuiLabel.Text=String.Format("%d", timer_value);

[strazer]

SSH, I think he's talking about the built-in timers.

There's no GetTimer function, so you need to script the timer yourself using variables if you want to access its current value.

[Joe]

Thankyou for answering

And how would you do that?

[strazer]

For example:

Code: ags

// main global script

int MyTimer = -1; // define timer variable, initially off
export MyTimer; // export variable for use in room scripts

function repeatedly_execute() { // gets executed every game loop

  if (MyTimer > 0) { // if timer is on
    MyTimer--; // decrease timer by 1 game loop
    YourGuiLabel.Text = String.Format("%d", MyTimer); // display its value on your gui label
  }
  else if (MyTimer == 0) { // aka IsTimerExpired

    // do stuff

    MyTimer = -1; // turn timer off
  }

}

Code: ags

// main script header

import int MyTimer; // import variable for use in room scripts

Code: ags

// some script

  MyTimer = 400; // aka SetTimer; 40 game loops = 1 second