Run to Completion in Timers

gyroscope

Hi, perhaps another obvious question, sorry 'bout that: shown to right of the Timer behaviour window, whether it's set to Every, After or For so many seconds, is a Run to Completion toggle. I can't quite work out why it's there. Can anyone tell me the difference of when the Run to completion is not checked, compared with when it is checked, please? (i.e Say you have a Timer wait for 5 secs, it will wait that amount of time, whether or not Run to Completion is checked; hmm, I don't get it...)

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iDeveloperz

If you have an actor that spawns 30 secs from taping the screen. Once you tapped again it should spawn. But if you click run to completion it will spawn 30 secs later.

I think. I don't really know. What I said is a bad and probably false example. But I couldn't really say i'm sure.

gyroscope

iDeveloperz said:
If you have an actor that spawns 30 secs from taping the screen. Once you tapped again it should spawn. But if you click run to completion it will spawn 30 secs later.

Ah, I see; thanks, iDevelopers, for your good example. it makes sense now!

:-)

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iDeveloperz

I think so anyway.

Don't rely on what I said but its an educated guess.

With all my coursework and money issues, this is what is going on in my mind...
http://gamesalad.com/game/play/28690

gyroscope

That's neat! I like the graphics, especially the cogs. I used cogs in a game I made in PGF; they're always really effective, I think. A thought (which you might of thought of anyway, and haven't done yet!); maybe put a background of wooden slats, being the back of a cage, even some bars top level.

:-)

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iDeveloperz

I didn't save it

It originally was for a 'Make your own contraption game' but it was to confuzzling for me.

gyroscope

iDeveloperz said:
I didn't save it

It originally was for a 'Make your own contraption game' but it was to confuzzling for me.

That's a shame. But I'm glad I'm not the only one that gets confuzzled round here!

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