quick help plz [game time counter]

[Lippuzz_]

can anybody help to make a gameplay time counter?
i did make one but it only showed seconds and milisecons (with gettimer())).
As soon as the player hit the button "submit" the time has to start to count. As the player reached his maximum turns the game goed to the next frame and the timer should top. The game starts over (from frame2) so the timer has to begin over again.

[ghjr]

Put an action on the submit button that calls the getTimer() function, like:



on (press) {
startTime = getTimer();
}


Then you make an onEnterFrame or something similar to keep creating a variable with the current time and also checking to see if the startTime + currentTime is equal to the total time you want to allow.

EDIT: To show it as minutes, just make a function that changes the time display every 60,000 milliseconds. There may be a better way to accomplish that though.


Cheers!

[Lippuzz_]

thanks for the help. but another thing i noticed is that the gettimer function is that it is faster on one computer than on another

[Shimi]

Well its the same as the setInterval function depends on the system
when the cpu is overloaded i guess the setInterval will be drunk function lol

[ghjr]

thanks for the help. but another thing i noticed is that the gettimer function is that it is faster on one computer than on another

Maybe thats a good thing. Players on slower PCs have a handicap hehe! :thumb:

Cheers!