[java] for the most inteligent ones :)

The really intelligent ones post more details and source code that will help others in finding the problems.

well, in this case, my point was that I''m the stupid one, witch
this only proves.. hehe

anyway, the timer problem is my bigest one, here are how I do it:

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Declare a Date variable, and two timer variables:

public Date timer = new Date();
public long startTime;
public long stopTime;

then, when I''m initializing, I get the startTime by writing startTime = timer.getTime();

at last I get the stopTime every frame and compare it against the startTime:

stopTime = timer.GetTime();
if( (stopTime-startTime) > delayTime ) {
currentFrame++;
}

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This doesn''t do anything, shouldn''t it be right?

Hans-Petter

A Data object represents a single point in time, in this case the time at which it was created. For internal timing use System.currentTimeMillis()

thanks! it worked

Hans-Petter

quote:

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well, in this case, my point was that I''m the stupid one, witch
this only proves.. hehe

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I should have added a to that post. I think I sounded pretty patronizing and elitist there. My apologies.

You may just want to note that currentTimeMillis can be quote innacurate on some platforms ( windows ) so that it will only change every 50 ms ~ 18 times a second.

If you need more accuracy you have a few options.
1) Use a native library
2) Use Sun JDK 1.4.2 or better and a sun.* class ( will be stock java in 1.5 finally )
3) Use a terrible hack in 100% java that I wrote a while ago that cannot give you an exact time but approximates 30 ticks per second quite well.