Timer Issues

[Clayton]

ok, im working on a game right now and im having some problems coming up with a reliable way to keep track of n timers without screwing up the screen, and noticeably slowing down the game, at first i thought of a procedure, but couldnt get it to work quite right, so i went to a process, but its still not working, heres what i have so far, if anybody could help it would be much appreciated

Turing:

process timer (amount : int)     const times : int := amount * 1000     var tim : int := Time.Elapsed     var tim2 : int := Time.Elapsed - times     loop         cls         put "Time Before Impact: ", round ((tim - tim2) / 1000)         View.Update         tim2 := Time.Elapsed - times         if tim - tim2 <= 0 then             put "BOOM"         end if         exit when tim - tim2 <= 0     end loop end timer

[Windsurfer]

I think the code here is mostly right, i just think there's a problem with the way this interacts with the rest of your code. I see that you are using this process to not only keep track of the seconds, but also to display the timer. Since this is a process, and you are using View.Update, this will reign hell upon earth. Why process are evil.
I reccomend that instead of having a process like this keep track of your timers, and take up 50% of your resources per timer, i suggest you develop a way to record Time.Elapsed at a certain point in your code, and then, for every iteration of your main loop, compare the old time to the new Time.Elapsed, until the desired difference is reached(eg. Time.Elapsed - old_time >= 10000 would be a ten second timer).
Also, display the timer in your main loop too, so that you don't get any unpredictable flickering when using View.Update.

[Clayton]

that View.Update was in there from before when it was a proc, ive read that article many a time trust me. i just had this one process in there for now until i could figure out what was going on with my procs...

[Windsurfer]

Soo.... what's your question?

[Clayton]

my question is how can i get that (above code) to allow me to have multiple timers going while still looking at least half decent...

[Windsurfer]

Make an array? Perhaps of real numbers, that you

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...record Time.Elapsed at a certain point in your code, and then, for every iteration of your main loop, compare the old time to the new Time.Elapsed, until the desired difference is reached(eg. Time.Elapsed - old_time >= 10000 would be a ten second timer).

Start off with this, perhaps:

code:

type timers_type :     record         old_time : real         time_length : real     end record const TIMER_NUM := 10 var timers : array 1 .. TIMER_NUM of timers_type

[TokenHerbz]

cant you just "fork" the process?

[Windsurfer]

TokenHerbz wrote:

cant you just "fork" the process?

~slaps poster and commits suicide by keyboard ~ jgamtpgjhkn....