Making the seconds on a timer show properly?

[Fillipuster]

Hey everyone.

I am trying to make a countdown timer on my HUD for 5 minutes.

It works perfectly.

But when the seconds part of the 5 min timer:
_________
that part
VV
4:23
_________

comes underneath 10 seconds it shows this: 4:5 instead of: 4:05

How can I make it show that?

Here is my code:
[lua]
timer.Create("clRoundTimer", 300, 1, function() end)

function getTimer()

timer.Start("clRoundTimer")

end
net.Receive("roundTimerStart", getTimer)

function paintTimerHUD()

local timeLeft = timer.TimeLeft("clRoundTimer")

local timeText = ""

if timer.TimeLeft("clRoundTimer") == nil then
timeText = "0:0"
else
timeText = tostring(math.floor(timeLeft/60))..":"..tostring(math.floor(timeLeft%60))
end

draw.SimpleTextOutlined(timeText, "HUDNumber5", ScrW()/2, ScrH()/2, Color(255,255,255,255), 0, 0, 1.5, Color(0,0,0,255))

end
hook.Add("HUDPaint", "paintTimerHUD", paintTimerHUD)
[/lua]

Any help is appreciated :D

- Fillipuster

[Pugsworth]

Use a formatted string: string.format

[url]http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdio/printf/[/url]

[Fillipuster]

Thanks, but anyone willing to do a quick explanation of how to do this exactly. I learn much better from that.

[Kogitsune]

You can also use string.ToMinutesSeconds( time_in_seconds ) to have it do it for you.

The idea behind it is fairly simple:

minutes = math.floor( time / 60 )
seconds = time % 60

output = string.format( "%02d:%02d", minutes, seconds )

We use %02d to tell the object that it is a number ( d ), should always be at least 2 in length ( 2 ) and to pad missing columns with 0 ( 0 )

Which means it handles things like:

00:01
32:10
04:19

All automatically.

[Fillipuster]

[QUOTE=Kogitsune;45601160]You can also use string.ToMinutesSeconds( time_in_seconds ) to have it do it for you.

The idea behind it is fairly simple:

minutes = math.floor( time / 60 )
seconds = time % 60

output = string.format( "%02d:%02d", minutes, seconds )

We use %02d to tell the object that it is a number ( d ), should always be at least 2 in length ( 2 ) and to pad missing columns with 0 ( 0 )

Which means it handles things like:

00:01
32:10
04:19

All automatically.[/QUOTE]

Awesome! This is perfect.
There is just one problem..
Now it posts time like this: 4:60 instead 5:00

Any fix?

[Kogitsune]

time = math.Round( time )

Before setting up minutes or seconds.

What's happening is that %d is rounding your number - seconds is fractional at this point and likely is something like 4.568 - if we round it beforehand, that doesn't happen.

[Fillipuster]

[QUOTE=Kogitsune;45601583]

time = math.Round( time )

Before setting up minutes or seconds.

What's happening is that %d is rounding your number - seconds is fractional at this point and likely is something like 4.568 - if we round it beforehand, that doesn't happen.[/QUOTE]

Thanks, your awesome! :D