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substim YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 2	set frameCount variable Sep 27th, 2005, 2:37pm   hello i use claculations with the frameCount variable* to time events. works fine. i'm not sure if it's ok to reset this value even it works, it's not read only? * if (frameCount%3 == 1){//do something} thx

fry YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 2623 mass, usa	Re: set frameCount variable Reply #1 - Sep 27th, 2005, 4:03pm   the frameCount variable should not be reset. it's used internally. we can't make it "read only" unless we hide it or make it only accessible via getFrameCount() or something silly like that.

cello Full Member Offline Posts: 143	Re: set frameCount variable Reply #2 - Sep 28th, 2005, 12:21am   You could do a pseudo read-only if there was a private and public value, copy the private value to the public one every time the frame changes.  Not that I think it's necessary.

fry YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 2623 mass, usa	Re: set frameCount variable Reply #3 - Sep 28th, 2005, 1:28am   i think i'd rather just say "don't mess with it". also, this sort of thing is often covered in the javadoc reference: http://dev.processing.org/reference/core/javadoc/processing/core/PApplet.html#frameCount while it's by no means complete, it actually mentions that frameCount is read-only in this case.

substim YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 2	Re: set frameCount variable Reply #4 - Sep 28th, 2005, 1:53pm   don't mess with it expected that answer