i’m trying to make a timer for a microwave, but the problem is that i don’t know how to make it stop immediately, like whenever someone opens the door(you don’t want them to get cooked too)
while loop and for loop are out of the question also repeat until(its almost pretty much the same as a while loop) because mainly 1 problem and that is, it has to wait until conditional in order to be stopped
problem:
local counting = true
local timer = 0 --timer variable
while true do
timer += 1 --increase timer by 1
print(timer) --prints the time into the output
wait(10) --has to wait
if not counting then return end --until it gets to condition
end
it becomes more noticeable when you increase the wait time, it won’t stop waiting immediately after you try to stop it
and also i’ve been testing out run service, not sure if should either use heartbeat, stepped, or rendered steppe for a timer on the server
idk what to use, but should i use tick or modulus operator for the cool down?
also i dont really know what they do exactly, i’ve only been experimenting with them each
tick
local tickk = 0
local function cook()
if tick() >= tickk then --look its tick
if minutes > 0 and seconds <= 0 then
minutes -= 1
seconds = 59
else
seconds -= 1
end
task.wait()
tickk = tick() + 1
if minutes <= 0 and seconds <= 0 then print("done!") return end
end
end
or modulus operator
local dbounce += 1
local function cook()
dbounce += 1
if dbounce % 60 ~= 0 then return end--look its modulus operator
if minutes > 0 and seconds <= 0 then
minutes -= 1
seconds = 59
else
seconds -= 1
end
task.wait()
if minutes <= 0 and seconds <= 0 then print("done!") return end
end
please help, which one is faster or better
also here is the model if you wanna mess around with it microwaveahh.rbxm (11.4 KB)
Well i think you are having the following problem. You start the loop but then you aren’t able to change the counting variable because the loop is running and the code doesn’t continue. To solve this problem run the loop in a coroutine like this.
local counting = false
coroutine.wrap(function()
while counting do
--do stuff here
task.wait()
end
end)() --The brackets are used to run the coroutine as coroutine.wrap returns a function
even:Connect(function()
counting = true
end)
otherEvent:Connect(function()
counting = false
end)
The corouting won’t stop, the loop will just not run while counting is false or nil. The coroutine is used just to run the while loop in a separate thread and not stop the code when it starts running
local counting = true
local timer = 0 --timer variable
local lastTick = tick()
while wait() do
if tick() - lastTick > 10 then
timer += 1 --increase timer by 1
print(timer) --prints the time into the output
lastTick = tick()
end
if not counting then return end --until it gets to condition
end
local counting = false
even:Connect(function()
counting = true
end)
otherEvent:Connect(function()
counting = false
end)
while counting and wait() do
if tick() - lastTick > 10 then
timer += 1 --increase timer by 1
print(timer) --prints the time into the output
lastTick = tick()
end
end
You could run your timer within a Heartbeat event and then when if you want to stop the timer prematurely you just disconnect the heartbeat event.
local timerLength = 10 --10 seconds
local timerStartTime = tick()
local stopTimer = false
local timerHeartbeat
timerHeartbeat = game:GetService("RunService").Heartbeat:Connect(function()
local timeElapsed = tick() - timerStartTime --How much time has passed since the timer started
if timeElapsed >= timerLength or stopTimer then
timerHeartbeat:Disconnect() --Stops the timer
end
end)
With this code you can set stopTimer to true and that should disconnect the timerHeartbeat and stop the timer. Alternatively you could just call timerHeartbeat:Disconnect() to stop the timer
You can just use a while loop. (I know they said they can’t have one, but keep reading)
This while loop would be in script 1.
In script 2 you could make it so whenever the door opens, you can call a function. This function will disable script 1.
