Thread: How do you make a timer cycle without putting it in process..

Originally Posted by Sabre Rush

I don't know how to call a timer to make it constantly count down without throwing it in process.

Basically.. I don't know how to call this every second or half second...

Code:

	if (timer < 1) {
		timer = ##;
	} else if (timer > 0) {
		timer--;
	}

It depends on what you're actually looking for. If you're looking to make it so it updates on a separate thread, you'd just need to create a separate thread that will sleep for 500-600ms, then loop through again (Which I doubt you want to do).

If, however, you just want to do something like update the timers in a different method, just do something like this.

Code:

private void updateTimers() {
    /* Updating Code Here */
}

Then, in process, call the method somewhere.

Code:

updateTimers();

C+P plz

Originally Posted by i gf i

Code:

updateTimers();

C+P plz

And what happens if we don't have that method

Originally Posted by PSNB

It depends on what you're actually looking for. If you're looking to make it so it updates on a separate thread, you'd just need to create a separate thread that will sleep for 500-600ms, then loop through again (Which I doubt you want to do).

If, however, you just want to do something like update the timers in a different method, just do something like this.

Code:

private void updateTimers() {
    /* Updating Code Here */
}

Then, in process, call the method somewhere.

So then I guess there is no way to make timers count down by the second or half second without throwing it in process >.>

Originally Posted by Sabre Rush

So then I guess there is no way to make timers count down by the second or half second without throwing it in process >.>

I said you could create a new Thread that would run through and update them all alongside the update thread, but that may cause some concurrency issues.

Code:

long someTimer;


public void doSomething() {
  if(System.currentTimeMillis() - simeTimer > (time, in ms)) {
    doAction();
    someTimer = System.currentTimeMillis();
  }
}