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Newcomers DBPro Corner / How to make something happen every 10 seconds?

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Bigdog
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Posted: 6th May 2003 22:13
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Is it possible to make something in your program happen every 10 seconds? Like the bombs in psace invaders drop every few seconds and the flying saucer comes every certain amount of second. Thanks
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Flashing Blade
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Posted: 6th May 2003 22:27
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something like this:

mytimer#=timer()+10000

do
...
code
...
if timer()>mytimer()
..do stuff..
mytimer#=timer()+10000
endif
...
code
...

sync

loop
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Bigdog
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Posted: 6th May 2003 22:38 Edited at: 6th May 2003 22:42
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Thanks for the quick reply. Now I can get on with my program Is the bit where you wrote if timer()>mytimer() sopposed to be if timer()>mytimer# ??

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Phaelax
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Posted: 6th May 2003 23:53
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yes it is

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