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luacoronasdk
kevin ver
kevin ver

Reputation: 851

Stop counting score on game over

i like to have a trigger to stop counting the score when an event happens, 

function restartStopScore()
     score = score + 0
end

will not work

score = 0
local scoreText = display.newText( "Score: " .. score, 20, 20,nil, 40)
scoreText:setTextColor(255,255,255)

local function getScore() -- increments Speed value every time it is called
 score = score + 1
 scoreText.text = "Score: " .. score 
 print("score" .. score)
 end
 timer.performWithDelay(1000, getScore, 0)


function restartScore()
     --reset the score
     score = 0   
end
 timer.performWithDelay(5000, restartScore, 1)--test trigger reset the score

Upvotes: 2

Views: 580

Answers (1)

Blenderer
Blenderer

Reputation: 702

You're going to want to set a boolean variable (true/false) for when you want to keep score. Initialize keeping_score at the top.

keeping_score = true

Wrap your score incrementing with this:

if keeping_score then
    score = score + 1
end

And your start/stop functions will look something like this:

function restartStopScore()
    keeping_score = false
end
function restartContinueScore()
    keeping_score = true
end

Upvotes: 5

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