looking for help converting a regular text to text mesh pro

[lapis dock]

using UnityEngine.UI;
using System.Linq;
using System;
using TMPro;

public class Timer : MonoBehaviour {

    private int TimeLeft;

   // [SerializeField]
    private Text textBlock;

    void Start ()
    {
        textBlock = FindObjectsOfType<Text>().Where(x => x.name == "TimeLeft").FirstOrDefault();

        TimeLeft = 400;

        InvokeRepeating("UpdateTime", 0, 0.33f);
    }
    
    
    void UpdateTime ()
    {
        if (textBlock)
        textBlock.text = (TimeLeft--).ToString();
    }
}```

[wanton moss]

That code is neither good way to handle references nor update something every frame, anyways, instead of Text, you should make a variable of type TextMeshProUGUI

And the biggest problem in that code is that its not framerate independent, at higher framerates, TimeLeft will obviously decrease faster, you should use Time.deltaTime to decrease the timer

[potent crane]

And don't use InvokeRepeating

Just do the stuff in Update

[wanton moss]

Or coroutine atleast