I made a timer module that converts to M:S and M:S.MS. But somehow it errors when I typed in the command bar to convert the timer seconds
Here is the code of the timer module: game.ReplicatedStorage.TIMERLIB
local MOD = {}
function MOD.M_S(SECONDS : number)
local ABSOLUTESECONDS = math.abs(math.floor(SECONDS))
local MIN = math.floor(ABSOLUTESECONDS/60)
local SEC_TENS = math.floor(ABSOLUTESECONDS/10%6)
local SEC_ONES = ABSOLUTESECONDS%10
local TIMERTEXT = SECONDS >= 0 and MIN..':'..SEC_TENS..SEC_ONES or '-'..MIN..':'..SEC_TENS..SEC_ONES
return TIMERTEXT
end
function MOD.M_S_MS(SECONDS : number)
local ABSOLUTESECONDS = math.abs(SECONDS)
local MIN = math.floor(ABSOLUTESECONDS/60)
local SEC_TENS = math.floor(ABSOLUTESECONDS/10%6)
local SEC_ONES = math.floor(ABSOLUTESECONDS%10)
local MIS = ABSOLUTESECONDS%1*1000
local MILLISECONDSTEXT = tostring(MIS):sub(1,3)
local TIMERTEXT = SECONDS >= 0 and MIN..':'..SEC_TENS..SEC_ONES..'.'..MILLISECONDSTEXT or '-'..MIN..':'..SEC_TENS..SEC_ONES..'.'..MILLISECONDSTEXT
return TIMERTEXT
end
return MOD
And here is what I typed in the command bar:
local Module = require(game.ReplicatedStorage.TIMERLIB)
print(Module.M_S(17.655))
You’re implying that there’s an error message, can I see it?
Also I never really used the command bar before, but perhaps you can’t store variables in it. Have you tried print(require(game.ReplicatedStorage.TIMERLIB).M_S(17.655))?
Ok so what I’m getting from this is that whatever require(game.ReplicatedStorage.TIMERLIB) returns is a number. Maybe try renaming the table in the module script from MOD to something else? The name might be clashing with a math constant or something.
Also, make sure that the return at the end of the module script actually returns the table and not a number.
Change the function methods from . to :
you’re supposed to name them this way function MOD:M_S(SECONDS: number)
and function MOD:M_S_MS(SECONDS : number)
and use them this way print(Module:M_S(17.655)
for the method MOD.M_S() the first parameter I reckon is self and that is why its saying attempt to index nil for seconds parameter, I haven’t gone through this breifly yet and I am rusty with Object Oriented Programming but that should fix it.
Assigning a function with . doesn’t pass self in automatically. You can still pass it in manually (which I do for type autocomplete): function someModule.someFunction(self : someModuleType, ...)
Pretty much function someModule:someFunction(...) is the same as function someModule.someFunction(self, ...)
Oh, it turns out the previous reloaded module is ‘return [number]’ but the module won’t update the code when I set it to ‘return MOD’. So that’s why I got the error.
The only way I fix it is make the ModuleScript error, reload the ModuleScript, remove the
ModuleScript error, and reload the ModuleScript. And it finally worked again. Thank you guys so much.
