How do I make a 60 minutes count down visible in all layouts?

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- lbesseli1
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I'm trying to make an escape room game.

I would like to make a clock/timer which is visible in every layout, always. Also when another browser tab is opened I would like it to continue counting down.

Could someone please explain to me how to do that?

I was able to create a timer this way, although it is probably not the most convenient way.

But still, when I move to another layout or open another browser tab, the timer temporarely stops counting down.

Could someone please help me?
- sysads
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Just wondering:

1) Is your timer on a separate event sheet?

2) Are your layouts sharing same event sheet or different event sheets?

I implemented a timer on my game and it works fine each level
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- Sofa_King
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I'm not sure why you are splitting it into two separate variables for min and sec.

This is counting up in hours/mins, but you could use the same principle:

[System | every 1 second] > [time.var | set value to "time var + 1"]
[text] > [set text to | zeropad(int(time.var/3600% 60)) & ":" & zeropad(int(time.var/60% 60))]
Also, by this way, just make the 'time.var' a global variable and then you can use it across all layouts.
- BaconSwagg
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lbesseli1 Here is the finished product

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Pri21FtZ61Mb8JjU7SHbkDOg6Yywfe67
- lbesseli1
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Thank you all so much! BaconSwagg Your solution really made it visible and understandable for me!

Ididn't realise because the timer was only in 1 eventsheet that's why it didn't continue in other layouts. It was really as simple as copy-paste.

Thanks again a lot!

Maybe you also know how to keep the timer moving (or recalculate) when the player is moving browser tabs (game is suspended). I would like the clock to keep counting down so that the player can not 'pause' the game by moving to another browser tab.

I read other posts about this, and people recommended "wallclocktime" but I really have no idea how to even find and use that function. Could you maybe help out with that too?