Any way to make the Quiz timer go down instead of up

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ceerup Code is Art Posts: 1033 Reg: Oct 10, 2011 New York City 16,380	confirm \| cancel 08/01/12 12:43 PM (13 years ago) Any way to make the Quiz timer go down instead of up And when the timer goes down lets say you have 10 seconds to answer, if you fail to answer in the time limit it counts as wrong answer and goes to the next question? im on self hosted 2.0 Title Comments And when the timer goes down lets say you have 10 seconds to answer, if you fail to answer in the time limit it counts as wrong answer and goes to the next question? im on self hosted 2.0

David @ buzztouch buzztouch Evangelist Posts: 6866 Reg: Jan 01, 2010 Monterey, CA 78,840	08/02/12 03:05 AM (13 years ago) Sure, some tweaks to the iOS / Android code is all you'll need. I don't have the code in front of me (it's 3:00 AM) but can offer some tidbits... --When a quiz button is tapped it triggers a "showNextQuestion" method. Not sure exactly what it's called, you'll see it when you scroll through the code. This is the method you want to trigger to advance to the next question. Like when your timer "runs out." --The timer is a simple mathematical equation. A routine runs every second and increments the timer. You could create a variable, like countdownLimit = 10 or something. With each iteration of the timerTick, you could minus one from this. When it reached 10, you could reset it then trigger the showNextQuestion routine. And, when a user taps an answer, you could reset it so each question allows 10 seconds. None of this is tough if you spend a bit looking through the showNextQuestion method and the timerTick method. Again, don't remember the method names without looking but I'm sure you can find them :-) Comments Sure, some tweaks to the iOS / Android code is all you'll need. I don't have the code in front of me (it's 3:00 AM) but can offer some tidbits... --When a quiz button is tapped it triggers a "showNextQuestion" method. Not sure exactly what it's called, you'll see it when you scroll through the code. This is the method you want to trigger to advance to the next question. Like when your timer "runs out." --The timer is a simple mathematical equation. A routine runs every second and increments the timer. You could create a variable, like countdownLimit = 10 or something. With each iteration of the timerTick, you could minus one from this. When it reached 10, you could reset it then trigger the showNextQuestion routine. And, when a user taps an answer, you could reset it so each question allows 10 seconds. None of this is tough if you spend a bit looking through the showNextQuestion method and the timerTick method. Again, don't remember the method names without looking but I'm sure you can find them :-)

ceerup Code is Art Posts: 1033 Reg: Oct 10, 2011 New York City 16,380	08/02/12 09:27 AM (13 years ago) Thank you so much David for the reply, im gonna look in the code for iOS and get to work and when i come up with something cool ill let ya know Comments Thank you so much David for the reply, im gonna look in the code for iOS and get to work and when i come up with something cool ill let ya know

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