Resetting Time.Elapsed

[landfarm]

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Turing:

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[Insectoid]

It would be great if you, I dunno, put a question in here?

[cool1143]

yea, this almost happened to me. if you say... attach a new attachment or when you preview, everything you previously typed is gone...

[Tony]

Confirmed the bug, and it's been logged for... eventual fixing.

[DtY]

Tony @ Sat Dec 05, 2009 4:22 pm wrote:

Confirmed the bug, and it's been logged for... eventual fixing.

I think at least a warning should be given in the default text to attach files before writing out your problem, and that if you preview make sure you have a local copy

[TheGuardian001]

Well, assuming that your problem is just resetting Time.Elapsed, I'm fairly certain you can't. You can however get two different values from Time.Elapsed and use them as a timer. For example, this waits for at least 10 seconds before exiting a loop.

Turing:

var start:int := Time.Elapsed %when we started var current : int put "starting" %output to create a window so we can tell it's running loop     current := Time.Elapsed %get the current running time     exit when (current-start) > 10000     %at least 10 second have passed since we set the starting time end loop put "end" %we're done.

This effectively acts as though you reset Time.Elapsed by using the value of start as your baseline, instead of when the program actually started.

[landfarm]

Sorry for getting back so late. I didn't realize my previous post was empty. And thanks, I'm going to try that later. I hope it works. But just in case, I'll rewrite my question. I made an animation and a game. After that, I thought it would be cool to add buttons, so I followed the guide, GUI for Dummies. I got it all working but my animation was based on a few songs, so I used Time.Elapsed to make sure the right things happened at the right time. But heres the catch, while running the loop in the GUI, it still counts as Time.Elapsed cause it started, so that is my problem. I'll see if the previous post works, and I think it would but I have to go to sleep now, to tomorrow. If there are any other ways, please advise. Thanks.

[landfarm]

Here is my code that has trouble. I'm only copying certain parts of it. My time still will not work. I kinda of understand it but it doesn't seem to work.

Turing:

procedure Animation     setscreen ("offscreenonly")     c := 1     fork Play1     %Starts music     loop         %Begins animation, redbox standing in middle, followed by other boxes coming in         if c = 1 then             ay3 := 800             drum := 15             inc := 1         end if         if (current - timepassed) < 12000 then             if drum > 20 then                 inc *= -1             elsif drum < 15 then                 inc *= -1             end if             drum += inc         end if         colourback (red)         drawfillbox (0, 140, 100, 340, 8)      %Speakers in background and outline. This is speaker #1         Draw.ThickLine (0, 140, 0, 340, 5, black)        %2D Outline part         Draw.ThickLine (0, 340, 100, 340, 5, black) end Animation         %Another part, the GUI part procedure Play     Instructions     Game end Play procedure Replay     Intro     Animation end Replay var button1:int:=GUI.CreateButton(20, 100, 0, "Play Game", Play) var button2:int:=GUI.CreateButton(20, 70, 0, "Play Animation", Replay) loop     timepassed := Time.Elapsed     Font.Draw ("ISU : Animation with Special 'FX'", 20, 350, fontdefault, black)     exit when GUI.ProcessEvent end loop

[B-Man 31]

TheGuardian001 @ Sat Dec 05, 2009 5:18 pm wrote:

Well, assuming that your problem is just resetting Time.Elapsed, I'm fairly certain you can't. You can however get two different values from Time.Elapsed and use them as a timer. For example, this waits for at least 10 seconds before exiting a loop.

Turing:

var start:int := Time.Elapsed %when we started var current : int put "starting" %output to create a window so we can tell it's running loop     current := Time.Elapsed %get the current running time     exit when (current-start) > 10000     %at least 10 second have passed since we set the starting time end loop put "end" %we're done.

This effectively acts as though you reset Time.Elapsed by using the value of start as your baseline, instead of when the program actually started.

To reset it, couldnt you just like do this:

Turing:

var time1 : int := 0 %declare my variable loop     time1 := 0 %this will reset the time to zero     loop         time1 := Time.Elapsed %start the timer         exit when time1 >= 10000 %exit this loop to go around and reset the timer     end loop end loop

[landfarm]

Um, I'm not sure but I got it working now.

[B-Man 31]

alright. thats good.