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elsamwell
program help
Apr 10th, 2010, 9:20am  
just wondering if anyone could help me to make a small timer that will sit in the bottom left hand side of the screen that basically counts up in seconds until a certain action happens then it will re-set from the begging.

what i mean by this is, i have a small asteroid game, where asteriods constanly come at you and you have to shoot them, i want to add a timer so there is an aim to the game, to suvive as long as you can, then when your ship is hit the timer will restart.

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Giles
Re: program help
Reply #1 - Apr 10th, 2010, 9:36am  
You'll want to use this:

http://processing.org/reference/millis_.html

Have a variable called timecheck or something like that.... set it
equal to millis() at the start. Then every frame your timer value is
(millis()-timecheck)/1000

Then you can have an if statement in draw() that checks if a "certain action" has occurred and if so, resets the time (i.e. timecheck
= millis() again).

Hope this helps.
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Cedric
Re: program help
Reply #2 - Apr 10th, 2010, 12:07pm  
and as you called it "program help" wasnt easy to spot that it belongs in the program section Smiley ill move it
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elsamwell
Re: program help
Reply #3 - Apr 11th, 2010, 5:14am  
Giles wrote on Apr 10th, 2010, 9:36am:
You'll want to use this:

http://processing.org/reference/millis_.html

Have a variable called timecheck or something like that.... set it
equal to millis() at the start. Then every frame your timer value is
(millis()-timecheck)/1000

Then you can have an if statement in draw() that checks if a "certain action" has occurred and if so, resets the time (i.e. timecheck
= millis() again).

Hope this helps.



hey, thanks for your help, but im a total noob at processing, the link was helpful but im looking to make a small stopwatch kind of timer that can sit in the bottom left of the screen so the user can see the amount of time they have suvived, wheres the link makes a shiny square.


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Cedric
Re: program help
Reply #4 - Apr 11th, 2010, 5:44am  
there are really a lot of posts dealing with this topic. just use the search.
this is one of them you could start with http://processing.org/discourse/yabb2/?num=1226560742
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