timer question

Hey everyone;

Can a single script have multiple timers?

I have a cool digital clock script but it only increments the seconds 2 at a time.

I was thinking I'd create separate functions to set the seconds, minutes and hours.

All suggestions greatly appeciated

RT

1 timer per state

fast timers can also be bad, its not really the timer, just what happens when the timer fires, ie 3 pages of crap ever 0.05 seconds

also just count the time, or use a function that returns a time/date stamp every so often

multiple simultaneous timers...

use several scripts. One for hours, one for minutes, one for seconds.

Post you're script. You certainly don't need more than one script or timer for a clock of any kind. Using multiple scripts is wasteful in this case.

Its actually one timer per script, timers persist ove changes of state.

fire a timer every second and then add 1 to an integer everytime, with an if statement saying if(integer ? == 60){does minute stuff}

etc, so on and so on.

small problem with that... timers are subject to time dilation... so eventually the scripted clocl is slower and slower compared to actual time....

there's lots of clock scripts out there, but updating is going to happen when the sim feels like it... sim runs slow, clock updates slow.... do you REALLY need seconds?

I do agree, this one isn't very sim freindly and wouldn't have worked all that well. But at the same time I was showing how you can use one timer to perform multiple time events.

Here is a little demo script showing how you can use 1 timer event to do multiple things:

integer mult_timer;

default
{
	state_entry()
	{
		llSetTimerEvent(10.0);
	}
	timer()
	{
		mult_timer++;
		if(mult_timer == 3)
		{
			llSay(0, "1/2 minute");
		}
		else if(mult_timer == 6)
		{
			llSay(0, "1 minute");
			mult_timer = 0;
		}
		else
		{
			llSay(0, (string)mult_timer + "0 seconds");
		}
	}
}

That would output:

new: 10 seconds
new: 20 seconds
new: 1/2 minute
new: 40 seconds
new: 50 seconds
new: 1 minute
new: 10 seconds
etc............................

i still cant imagine why anyone would actually want to count seconds for a clock, just get a timestamp, then even if your clock suffers timer drag the data will still be correct

At one point I had a clock that I made on screen as a hud that showed my local time. I stopped using it and couldn't imagine pinging the server with a llGetWallClock every minute for the whole time I am in game anymore. Still a good learning expirience but not exactly sim freindly.