This is probably going to sound really noobish, but I'm not much of a programmer. Bassically I'm working on a simple boxing game, I'm using the script below as a timer for the rounds, it counts down 2 minutes, when it reaches zero the next round starts. The problem is I can't seem to reset the timer at the start of each round, it just stays at zero, I hope that made sense.

string time_str;
string temp_str;

var seconds = 120; // number of seconds to be counted down
var temp_seconds;


function count_down()

{
while(seconds > 0)

{
sleep (1);
seconds -= 1;
temp = int(seconds / 60); // compute the number of minutes
str_for_num(time_str, temp);
str_cat (time_str, " : ");
temp_seconds = seconds - temp * 60; // compute the remainder (the number of seconds)
str_for_num(temp_str, temp_seconds);
if (temp_seconds < 10)
{
str_cat (time_str, "0"); // add a zero (if needed)
}
str_cat (time_str, temp_str);

}
}

When a new round start call a function which does something like the following:


btw:
Instead of sleep(x); use wait(-x);
Because sleep is old syntax

That worked, thanks for the help, I should have been able to figure it out myself.

Did it even run with "sleep"? I thought the engine would have refused to run with the old syntax, are you using A7?

I didn't try running it with sleep, I changed it to wait(-1), The only reason it had sleep in the script I posted is because I copied it from the original file and not from the file in my project.

hypothetical error event: multiple count_down() functions in engine's function list?
solvent / insurance: one instance only? proc_kill?
count_down()
count_down()
count_down()
count_down()
count_down()
count_down()
// close on n not down to other n
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