Countdown from 20sec to 0sec

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Ok, i’ve searched but nothing. I have also seen the countdown tutorial but it’s no use for me because it countdowns to a chosen date.

So, what I need is a simple script that would use the dynamic text field with the variable of display to show the countdown from 20:00 seconds to 00:00 seconds (and then go to nextFrame();). Not from 20 to 0 but from 20:00, to 00:00. Which means milliseconds too.

I know it’s simple but I can’t do it :frowning:

Thanks a bunch!

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Milliseconds go from 0 to 999 so you’ll have to update once every 10ms instead of once a ms. Therefore the milliseconds variable you’ll see below doesn’t really represent ms, its from 0 to 99 and represents 1/100’s of a second. Here’s the code:

// Initial values
seconds = 20;
milliseconds = 0;

// Call the updateTimer function once every 10 milliseconds
myInterval = setInterval(updateTimer, 10);

function updateTimer()
{[INDENT]// Update the timer
[/INDENT][INDENT]if(milliseconds == 0)
{[INDENT]if(seconds == 0)
{[INDENT]// Countdown complete, Stop calling this function
[/INDENT][INDENT]clearInterval(myInterval);

// Put whatever you want
// it to do once finished here
[/INDENT]}
else
{[INDENT]// Drop one second and reset the milliseconds

milliseconds = 99;
seconds–;
[/INDENT]}
[/INDENT]}
else milliseconds–;

// Format the numbers correctly if they
// are the wrong length
[/INDENT][INDENT]msString = milliseconds.toString();
secString = seconds.toString();
if(msString.length < 2) msString = ‘0’ + msString;
if(secString.length < 2) secString = ‘0’ + secString;

// Update the text field

myText.text = secString + ‘:’ + msString;
[/INDENT]}

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thanks a lot!