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Graeme

Fri Mar 10, 2006 8:43 am


Need Help wth Time.Elapsed

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Hello, I am currently working on a program
and i need it so that after every 2 minutes
"health" is decreased  by 15%
I know I will need to use Time.Elapsed, But I am unsure how I would get 
the health to decrease every 2 minutes
thanks for your help


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Albrecd

Fri Mar 10, 2006 9:14 am



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Time.Elapsed gives the number of milliseconds that have passed so far in your program.  To use it, you have to have a variable (:int) which must then be given the value of Time.Elapsed.  Then when your variable is at the number of milliseconds you want, decrease health.


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do_pete

Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:42 pm



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Something like this will work:
var startTime := Time.Elapsed

loop
    % do stuff
    if Time.Elapsed - startTime >= 120000 then
        % decrease health
    end if
end loop



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Graeme

Fri Mar 10, 2006 5:03 pm



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Thanks alot for the help
Yeah I previously had a varibale declared
I have 
var health : string := "100"
var startTime := Time.Elapsed 

loop 
  
    if Time.Elapsed - startTime >= 120000 then 
put health
            end if 
end loop 

I have that, but now I want to get it so that every 2 minutes, it goes down 25% , so 100,75,50,25,0 etc etc ...i just dont know how i would get it to decrease each 2 mins, i have an idea, but i can't seem to get it to work.
thanks for the help


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Cervantes

Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:07 pm



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Keep a variable, health_decrease_time that represents the last time the health was decreased.


var health_decrease_time := 0
loop
    if Time.Elapsed - health_decrease_time > 120000 then
         health_decrease_time := Time.Elapsed
         health -= 25
     end if
end loop



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[Gandalf]

Fri Mar 10, 2006 7:36 pm



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var health : string := "100"
var startTime := Time.Elapsed 

loop 
  
    if Time.Elapsed - startTime >= 120000 then 
put health
            end if 
end loop 
Care to tell me why the variable health is a string?  It should be an int.