Scripting a progressbar

[Master-Guy]

Hi all,

Currently I'm just playing around some with lua files to see what's possible and at this moment I'm trying to make a progressbar.
For now I got it working, but it's based on the FPS to fill.

The code I have for now (cl_init.lua):

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function GM:HUDPaint()
    cntTest = cntTest+1
    cntPcnt = math.floor((300/cntMax)*cntTest)
    cntPcntD3 = math.floor(cntPcnt/3)
   
    if stopdraw == false then
        draw.RoundedBox(2, boxLeft, boxTop, cntPcnt, 25, Color(0, 255, 0) )
        draw.RoundedBox(2, boxLeft+cntPcnt, boxTop, 300-cntPcnt, 25, Color(255, 0, 0) )
        draw.SimpleText(cntPcntD3, "ScoreboardText", boxLeft+150, 47, Color(255,255,255,255), TEXT_ALIGN_CENTER, TEXT_ALIGN_CENTER)
    end
   
    if cntPcnt >= 300 then
        stopdraw = true
    end
end

cntTest = 0
cntMax = 1200
boxLeft = (ScrW()/2)-150
boxTop = 35
stopdraw = false

Is there any way to make it work on a timer with milliseconds or deciseconds?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

With kind regards,

MG

[JamminR]

Lua Manual and Gmod Lua Wiki are your friends.

I suggest the following.
os.time - Though a standard Lua function, I link to the Gmod wiki most of the time just to keep links to one place. Amazing what the "See also" links often can help give ideas for.

String.ToMinutesSecondsMilliseconds

[Master-Guy]

Thanks for your reply, but I've found those already
Unfortunately I cannot get those get to work with milliseconds .. the smallest is seconds

[JamminR]

You'd need to provide a time in seconds that also included decimals to the String.ToMinutesSecondsMilliseconds function for it to hand back milliseconds.
I thought that os.time didn't do any rounding.
I'm not sure how you've tested but all the numbers currently in your script have have no decimals.

[Master-Guy]

I finally got it working..

Before today I tought that the timer function only worked with integers, but today I spotted the word "float" in the description and tested that..
It seems to do the trick.

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function GM:HUDPaint()
    cntPcnt = math.floor((300/cntMax)*cntTest)
    cntPcntD3 = math.floor(cntPcnt/3)
   
    if stopdraw == false then
        draw.RoundedBox(2, boxLeft, boxTop, cntPcnt, 25, Color(0, 255, 0) )
        draw.RoundedBox(2, boxLeft+cntPcnt, boxTop, 300-cntPcnt, 25, Color(255, 0, 0) )
        draw.SimpleText(cntPcntD3, "ScoreboardText", boxLeft+150, 47, Color(255,255,255,255), TEXT_ALIGN_CENTER, TEXT_ALIGN_CENTER)
    end
   
    if cntPcnt >= 300 then
        stopdraw = true
print(string.ToMinutesSecondsMilliseconds(1234.5678))
    end
end


function advanceProgressA()
cntTest = cntTest + 1
if cntTest < cntMax then
timer.Create("ProgressTimerB", 0.1, 1, advanceProgressB, "")
end
end
function advanceProgressB()
cntTest = cntTest + 1
if cntTest < cntMax then
timer.Create("ProgressTimerA", 0.1, 1, advanceProgressA, "")
end
end


function startProgress(durationMS)
cntMax = math.Round(durationMS/10)
cntTest = 0
timer.Create("ProgressTimerA", 0.1, 1, advanceProgressA, "")
stopdraw = false
end

startProgress(3000)