Simple timer is not working

[sunethjod]

I am new to thunkable and programming in general and i am trying to get a simple countdown timer to work. I used the timer tutorial as a reference but the countdown stops at 9. Timer delay is set to 1 second.

Also I noticed in the timer tutorial it goes lower than 0 as well. How can we stop the countdown at 0?

Please refer the attached blocks image

[domhnallohanlon]

Hey @sunethjod

Welcome to the community!

You’ll need some blocks to tell your timer when to stop counting too.

Here’s a free template:

Working with Times and Dates in Thunkable

Part 3: Countdown Another common way use the timer components is to create a countdown. There are lots of different UIs for this, but to keep it as simple as possible we’ll be working with just minutes and seconds. If you remix this project, you can add in hours or days too! Click here to remix the “Tempus” app Components There are two TextInputs at the top of the screen, separated by a label. Underneath this is the main output label, which shows how much time is left in the countdown. Fi…

[sunethjod]

Thanks. This is the template I followed.

For some reason my countdown does not move past 9 (starts at 10). I even added “round” to app countdown in the section where it suppose to change the label value thinking converting variable value to a number will help but it didn’t work either.

[jared]

Hey @sunethjod, here is another example of how to construct a timer

How to create a timer that runs in the background or with the app closed completely

Hey Thunkers! I wanted to create a quick tutorial to demonstrate how to have a timer that runs in the background independent of the app being open or closed. First, here is the visual layout, of course, i doubt yours will be the same as mine exactly but for demonstration purposes, here you go! [Screen Shot 2020-03-14 at 11.58.34 PM] Step 1: Create 1 stored variable. This guy will do our real “timer” work and keep track of everything we need Because I utilize the variable as a list, I need …