Timer problems in Solar2d/Lua

Asked Jun 17 '22 at 15:04

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I'm trying to make a timer that goes on repeat a certain number of times, but it just comes out as an infinite loop. In the following code, only s is ever printed never a, so the program isn't even entering the timer. Any help would be really appreciated

k = 10
sec = 10
i = 0
it = 3
while (i < it) do
    text.text = sec
    print("s")
    timer.performWithDelay( 1000, function () 
        print("a")
        sec = sec - 1
        text.text = sec
        if (sec == 0) then
            i = i + 1
            sec = k
        end
    end, k)
end

asked Jun 17 '22 at 15:04

Nicholas O'Neal

`timer.performWithDelay` tells Solar2d to remember to do something 1 second later. Your code is an infinite loop that tells it more and more things to do later, but never returns so it can actually do them. – user253751 Jun 17 '22 at 15:43
Thank you so much, do you have any advice on how I can get it to do what I want it to do? – Nicholas O'Neal Jun 17 '22 at 15:46
I don't understand what you want it to do – user253751 Jun 17 '22 at 17:50

Timer problems in Solar2d/Lua

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