Timer in game Problem

[FailWhale]

Hey everyone, I'm in Grade 10 at the moment and I'm making a game right now. I'm having troubles making the loop exit when 10 seconds pass. help please?

code:

setscreen ("graphics:850;600") put "Welcome to Super Awesome Guitar Game!" put "" put "The game is simple: strum the guitar by pressing space." put "" put "You must strum the guitar a certain amount of times before the song ends in order to complete the level." put "If you fail to do so, you lose!!" put "" put "Please do not cheat the game by holding the space bar; it's no fun that way. :(" put "" put "Type in the difficulty you wish to start with (1-10 in inreasing difficulty) then press enter to start!" var idiff : int get idiff var itimes, ineeded : int var ckey : string(1) ineeded := 500*idiff itimes := 0 cls loop var itime : int := Time.Elapsed() exit when itimes = ineeded or itime = 10000 put itimes put ineeded getch (ckey) if ord (ckey) = 32 then itimes := itimes + 1 end if cls end loop if itimes = ineeded then put "Nice" else put "You Failed" end if

Thanks!

[Tony]

code:

exit when itimes = ineeded or itime = 10000 put itimes put ineeded

I like how you are printing the values out -- it makes it easier to see what values were used to check if it's time to exit.

So, when is that condition true?