[Action] Death Scroll with Countdown

[tony adamantium]

I currently have this script:

function onUse(cid, item, frompos, item2, topos)

if item.itemid == 5952 then
doCreatureAddHealth(cid, -90000)
doCreatureAddHealth(cid, -90000)
doRemoveItem(item.uid,1)
end
end

But I want it to have a countdown added, for example, if someone clicks on it, it will say "You have 5 seconds of life, You have 4 seconds, 3, 2, 1" in orange letters, then he will die..
I hope its not too hard but I'm not good at doing scripts
Thanks.

 

[Amiroslo]

try this

function countDown(number, pos, effect, msgonend, effectonend)
  local n = number
       for i = 1, number do
           addEvent(doSendAnimatedText,i* 1000, pos, n > 1 and n.."" or msgonend .."", n < 6 and TEXTCOLOR_RED or TEXTCOLOR_GREEN)
		   addEvent(doSendMagicEffect,i* 1000, pos, n > 1 and effect or effectonend )

              n = n -1
	   end
      n = number
return true

function onUse(cid, item, frompos, item2, topos) 

if item.itemid == 5952 then 
 countDown(10, getThingPos(cid), 5, "DEAD!", 2)
doCreatureAddHealth(cid, -90000) 
doCreatureAddHealth(cid, -90000) 
doRemoveItem(item.uid,1) 
end 
end

 

[tony adamantium]

it gives me this error
[Error - LuaScriptInterface::loadFile] data/actions/scripts/deathscroll.lua:12: 'end' expected (to close 'function' at line 1) near 'function'
[17/05/2012 17:48:44] [Warning - Event::loadScript] Cannot load script (data/actions/scripts/deathscroll.lua)
[17/05/2012 17:48:44] data/actions/scripts/deathscroll.lua:12: 'end' expected (to close 'function' at line 1) near 'function'

 

[Evan]

Add another end at the end of the countDown function.
A for loop requires an end, so does the function.