best practice for... time since pressed

morphinegamingmachine

want to save the time in seconds and minutes since pressed that updates in real time... best practice besides lots of contraints?

morphinegamingmachine

what i just tried defiantly didn't work, constraining time difference to time current time sec-pressed time sec depending on what second u started would count up, then not get to 60 it would get to like 56 and then go to -4 or go to 28 then to -32

whats the best way besides every second adding to score as time?

tatiang

touch is pressed --> game.PressedTime=game.Time
every 0 seconds --> game.TimeSincePressed=game.Time-game.PressedTime
... and then convert game.TimeSincePressed to minutes and seconds using a tshirtbooth technique:



Is that what you're looking for? It still uses an every 0 seconds timer.

MotherHoose

MGM
the button itself has a timer: self.Time … tracks time in seconds and milliseconds
the button has self.Tags to use as a 2nd conditionControl … should be blank for this purpose

-add an attribute real-type to the button: pressedTime

on the button:
Rule: when (All)
Event: touch is pressed
Attribute: self.Tags is blank
--changeAttribute: self.pressedTime To: self.Time
--changeAttribute: self.Tags To: pressed … just type-in as it is text

Rule: when (All)
Attribute: self.Tags is pressed
Attribute: self.Time > pressedTime+10 … (the 10 is 10 seconds … could be any number you like … remember a whole number here is seconds )
--do This
--do That
--changeAttribute: self.Tags To: leave blank
--changeAttribute: self.pressedTime To: 0

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use what the computer is already tracking
use the gameAttributes to initiate/store gameWide events/attributes
use player's interaction with an element/actor in your game … to control/run the events

@};- MH