Timers for an Event

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Hi all

im really struggling with timers for random events and was wondering if someone could help me please,

i have the random bit sorted and know it works as iv done it before for other events the only thing is the timer for this event will have a timer counting down from 1 hour so i want it to be displayed like this 1h 0m 0s so heres what i got as basic i just dont understand how to convert it, i know i will have to convert the variable but does that mean i will have to have 3 different text box’s to display the timer or could i add the variables together.

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Sooooo… i read back my own post and thought id answered my own question so here is what i have now and it just seems to zero the Timer but i have the layout i want :slight_smile: anyway can someone please try tell me why my timer zeros as everything i see should work

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I can’t test it now, but the time should be stopped at 0:59:59 :confused: … You should move the event 128 as sub-event of 127, other way the event 127 reset the timer and 128 doesn’t run :slight_smile:

Anyway, it’s a strange way to have a timer as you already have the info you need in one timer, you should find a form to formatting seconds in hh:mm:ss. Again, I can’t test it (or do anything to GD related) now, but let’s theorize :smiley:
You have a timer that returns the time elapsed in seconds, you just need to “format” it. To get the minutes from the time t in seconds, do t/60 and floor the value (2,65 minutes are 2 minutes and some seconds). Now you needs the hours, you have to do t/3600 to convert seconds to hours.
Now wait, you have to subtract the minutes to seconds (or 65 seconds will be = 0h 1m 65s), and you have to substract the hours to minutes too (or 3600 seconds will be = 1h 60m 0s), in the right order, it’s:

t >> Get hours >> Get minutes (subtracting hours converted to minutes) >> Get seconds (subtracting minutes and hours converted to seconds)

t h = floor(t/3600) m = floor(t/60) - h*60 s = t - m*60 - h*3600

I don’t know if you get the theory, or if you are interested at all, so let’s do it in a practical way now.
You need only one timer or some way get the time, I’ll assume the variable t has the time in seconds to format (t can be a float, so TimeDelta() will works here):

Do = floor(Variable(t) / 3600) to the variable h Do = floor(Variable(t) / 60) - Variable(h)*60 to the variable m Do = floor(Variable(t)) - Variable(m)*60 - Variable(h)*3600 to the variable s Do = VariableString(h)+"h "+VariableString(m)+"m "+VariableString(s)+"s" to the text of EventTimer

Finally, I think it can be done in just one line, but it’s ugly, hard to read, and maybe with poor performance:

Do = ToString(floor(Variable(t)/3600))+"h "+ToString(floor(Variable(t)/60)-floor(Variable(t)/3600)*60)+"m "+ToString(floor(Variable(t))-floor(Variable(t)/60)*60)+"s" to the text of EventTimer

Not so cool! :laughing:

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thanks ill have a fiddle and let you know how i get on and yea i understand what ur saying just couldnt get my head rnd how to code it

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The two last “codes” are written in the GD syntax, you just need the time to format in a variable “t” (in seconds) :wink:

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Cheers lizard got it sorted now :wink:

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Do = ToString(floor(Variable(t)/3600))+"h "+ToString(floor(Variable(t)/60)-floor(Variable(t)/3600)*60)+"m "+ToString(floor(Variable(t))-floor(Variable(t)/60)*60)+“s” to the text of EventTimer

Sorry, how would that one line continue with adding milliseconds? Can someone please solve this?