Hello,
My son and I are designing a math game. We are trying to implement a timer, so when a question comes up the person has a set time to answer. I can't figure out an elegent way to pull this off. We have a timer that counts down to zero, and can do different things once the timer hits zero. However, nothing happens until the ask question is answered. This is the “wait” part of the ask and wait. I believe there could be a way to stop all, but I'm looking for other ideas on how to get the wait to terminate once the timer reaches 0.

Here is an example project: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/26704820/


thanks
Doug

The ask block can only be stopped by the user. The only programmatic way to end an ask box is the stop all which defeats the point here. Either just wait for the user to enter something and tell them they were out of time or don't use the ask box, write your own version e.g http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/19204741/

hi, i can't garuntee this will work but someone posted it on my discussion

It will be very useful to have a block like this Perhaps I could have your advice on that?

You could try having only two scripts in the sprite which asks the question:

will not stop an ask block only stop all will. I'm afraid both solutions won't solve the problem as mentioned before.

Here ya go:

Thanks.

How did you get the list “answered?” into the set block for variables/lists? I only see how I can use the set block with existing variables.

cheers

And where did the block with “answered? = 1 >> then” come from?

thanks

Well, I think this will work., Or maybe not.

Then this is the timer. Make it change by -1 overtime after a second. Then, also set it back the 5 seconds…
One example:

…and continue taking away seconds.

Here ya go, I reviewed your project and saw the problem,

Broadcast Changetimer:

Check if timer is over 5 already,