Timer not working properly

I've done a timer script so when in battle once player has attacked the enemy it's suppose to count down the timer from 10 and when ) is hit, it lets my player attack again (ie, attack menu pops back up) very much like FF10 / FF10-X2

Script attached below if anyone can figure out whats happening with it, the menu doesn't pop backup and the timer only goes to 9 and nothing else.

Code (JavaScript):

1. var timer : int = 10;

Code (JavaScript):

1. function Update () {
2.         if(turn == 2 && enemyTurnActivated == false) {
3.                 enemyTurnActivated = true;
4.                 enemyTurn();
5.                
6.         }    timer -= Time.deltaTime;
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9.        
10.        
11. }
12.  
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14.  
15. function enemyTurn () {   player.SendMessage("damagePlayer", Random.Range(1,10));
16.         if (timer <= 0)
17.         {          
18.            
19.            
20.         turn = 1;
21.         enemyTurnActivated = false;
22.         }    
23.      
24.        
25. }

 

This is probably a place you would want to call a coroutine to set the timer countdown every second and restore game play. You could look up WaitForSeconds and get some examples in the script reference. It would something like:
while(timer > 0){
yield WaitForSeconds(1);
timer --
}
now do whatever

 

somethng like this?

Code (JavaScript):

1. function enemyTurn () {   player.SendMessage("damagePlayer", Random.Range(1,10));
2.         enemyTurnActivated = false;
3.         yield WaitForSeconds (5);
4.         turn = 1;
5.      
6.         }  
7.    
8.      
9. }

 

Yeah, but if you use a loop, there's a countdown:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. function enemyTurn () {  player.SendMessage("damagePlayer", Random.Range(1,10));
3.        enemyTurnActivated = false;
4.        timer = 5;
5.       while(timer>0){
6.        yield WaitForSeconds (1);
7.       timer--;
8.         }
9.         turn = 1;
10.    
11.      }
12.    
13.  
14. }