braingame's Forum Posts

  • uuups, I just noticed a big drawback with RamPackWobble's timer solution

    When I count down from 30s to 0 it will take about 33s !!! It is 3s to slow !

    I tested this on different PCs with the same result - what's wrong ?

    I need a really accurate timer, so what to do?

    Any help is appreciated.

  • good idea

    working with "Set text to left(text.ivTimerText,4) " combined with a little adjustment for my special needs does the formatting trick.

    Thank you.

    by the way:

    I didn't even think of using a timer behavior! This is much more convenient then my awkward try with calculating the time left within the condition "System | Every tick" .

    I can imagine that using a timer like you did, is more resource-friendly then my way with "System | Every tick". What do you think?

  • https://www.scirra.com/manual/167/timer

    "A single Timer behavior can keep track of multiple timers. To distinguish between then, a tag is used."

    It's only a micro bug, but I think "then" should be replaced by "them".

    Sorry if I'm mistaken here, but English is not my native language.

  • Hi all together,

    in my game I want to display a count down timer. It counts from 30.0s down to 0.0s

    The deciseconds always must be displayed but what I'm getting is a missing ".0" at

    30, 29, 28, ... 3, 2, 1 and 0 seconds - so it looks like:

    30

    29.9

    29.8

    29.7

    29.6

    29.5

    29.4

    29.3

    29.2

    29.1

    29

    28.9

    29.8

    ...

    Every tick I calculate the variable gTimeLeft to display how much time is left.

    • using round(gTimeLeft*10)/10 cuts off the required ".0"
    • zeropad() is only usefull for adding leading zeros, but I need a trailing zero including the decimal point

    So how can I format my timer like "ss.s" without slowing down the frame rate?

    Thanks for hints and/or solutions in advance.

  • I was glad to find this topic!!!

    As Ashley already said:

    " You should make sure you use valid and complete XML documents, which start with "<?xml ...". "

    First I made the same mistake and played around only with XML elements and didn't bother about the XML header. But when my PHP file echoed the missing starter line "<?xml ..." all was well

    For your info:

    For XML output in PHP I use the object XMLWriter() and the method startDocument('1.0','UTF-8') does the trick with the needed header.

  • Hi all together,

    according to my nickname I'll make braingames with C2.

    I already played a bit around with the free version of C2, then I needed more than 100 events. I decided to buy C2 because

    1. I think it's a powerfull tool and

    2. the community is very active, friendly and helpfull

    Happy gaming

    best regards

    braingame

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  • Great forum, allways very helpfull.

    I had the same exporting problem (Win7 32bit). After reinstalling Java the C2 export worked fine.

    Thank you Ashley!