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Skela

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Posted: 23rd Feb 2015 02:27

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I am stuck on how to create a timer, but not a timer()

How would I create a loop where every one second everything inside the loop is called? ex)

while x > x
do
if nextsecond()
print (second)
endif
loop
endwhile

I hope this kinda explains what I am looking for, thanks!

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baxslash

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Posted: 23rd Feb 2015 08:49

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I'm assuming you still want other stuff to run outside the one second loop so here's a version that ONLY runs the increment every second but prints the current value all the time:

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time# = timer()
i = 0
do
    time# = time# + GetFrameTime()
    if time#>1000
        time# = time#-1000
        inc i
    endif
    print("loop count = " + str(i))
    Sync()
loop

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Skela

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Posted: 24th Feb 2015 06:41

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Quote: "I'm assuming you still want other stuff to run outside the one second loop so here's a version that ONLY runs the increment every second but prints the current value all the time:"

So I did it how you showed and added the function calls I needed but it doesn't work at all for some reason it never even loops, here is how I have it.

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do
		time# = time# + GetFrameTime()
			
			if i < 10
				if time#>1000
					time# = time#-1000
					ball()	
					inc i, 1
				endif
				
			endif
		print("loop count = " + str(i))
		Sync()

	loop

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Posted: 24th Feb 2015 06:57

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My mistake, it should be checking for 1 not 1000:

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time# = timer()
i = 0
do
    time# = time# + GetFrameTime()
    if time#>1.0
        time# = time#-1.0
        inc i
    endif
    print("loop count = " + str(i))
    Sync()
loop

I was on my phone so I couldn't test it. Sorry.

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