Countdown Timer In-Game

[olingalan]

Hi guys! I'm a computer science student and my partner(in thesis) and I are developing a game ung JAVA NETBEANS IDE...

We wonder if u can help us out in choosing or giving us hint on how we can put A COUNTDOWN TIMER inside our game.. Our game is composed of 4 time attack games so we need it badly..


tnx guys, hope u can help us out..

[Regenuluz]

Just use a Timer. Java has those build in.

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/Timer.html

That should get you going in the right direction.

[olingalan]

tnx for helping me out

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[GabrielBailey74]

This would work, call this method where ever you handle your MAIN game cycle:

Declare these variables:

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private static int currentFPS = 0;    public static int Fps; //Actual frames per second   private static long start = 0;    public static int levelTime = 120; //120 seconds = 2 minutes

Add this method:

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public static void updateFps() {       currentFPS++;       if (System.currentTimeMillis() - start >= 1000) {          levelTime -= 1; //We deduct 1 second, every second.         Fps = currentFPS;          currentFPS = 0;          start = System.currentTimeMillis();       }    }

Works fine, every second (1000 milliseconds, its removing 1 from that levelTime, which you could draw out like "Time remaining: "+levelTime.
Hope it helps m8.