One qestion about lwjgl's getTime()

[princec]

I'm not sure if you're cut out for this game programming malarkey ... 

Cas

[wdl7770016]

hehe  sor 
I admit I'm so stupid..
but I want to learn 

[ra4king]

Sor I mean that what is time in Ticks? What is Ticks?...

getTime() returns the time in ticks, which is a unit that doesn't exactly mean anything until you get a resolution

*sighs* I think princec is right, you can't even read

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[Roquen]

Real men write it out in binary.

[wdl7770016]

Sor I mean that what is time in Ticks? What is Ticks?...

getTime() returns the time in ticks, which is a unit that doesn't exactly mean anything until you get a resolution

*sighs* I think princec is right, you can't even read

but what you get about “getTime() returns the time in ticks, which is a unit that doesn't exactly mean anything until you get a resolution”?
tell me getTime（） return a long which that doesn't mean anything?
but I ask that “you say if getTime = 100 and getTimerResolution = 100 then 1 second pass why?”
100*100=1second? it's crazy!!!:o

[Danny02]

I have sworn to never post in this thread again but here I go ...

Look whenever you want to give some number a meaning you have to attach a unit to this number.
Like when I say my hard-drive has 64. You would probably ask 64 what? Then I could tell you 64 GigaByte(GB), so the unit is GB and only because of the unit this number(64) makes any sens for you.

Now back to our little time problem.
We have this function getTime which returns to us the actual time, but in a unit X we do not know(it is not specified and can as written above vary).
So the second function getTimerResolution gives us conversion number to convert a time in the unit X to the equal time amount in seconds.

This is the same principle like when you want to know how much Euro € your 100$ are worth. Somebody might tell you that 1$ == 0.8€ so you can just multiply your 100$ * 0.8(€/$) = 80€

In our problem getTimerResolution tells us how many of X is one second(X/s).
now we get for example after the call to getTime as a result: 10.000
and from getTimerResolution: 100

So we can just do this simple calculation: 
10.000X = r seconds * 100(X/s)  //r is the time in seconds we want to know
10.000X / 100(X/s) = r seconds
100 (X/X) s = r seconds
100s = r seconds
so the time is 100 seconds.

Now when we do not want the time in seconds but in milliseconds for example we can multiply the result with 1000(I will not explain this again look at my first!!!!! post).
The thing my one would like to multiply before the unit conversion is because we do integer math.

[Roquen]

Measuring time in ticks is much more reasonable as that's what the actual clock will be returning.

[wdl7770016]

Sorry for my bad English to waste your free times
and Thx for your enthusiastic to my stupid
Now I had really know it
good luck

[princec]

I think you're the one who needs the luck here I can't imagine how you're going to cope with sprites, collision detection, game loops, user input, etc...

Cas

[Roquen]

Is the role reversal week?  I thought I was suppose bad cop.