Timer problem

[jamppa]

Does anyone know how to put second´s tenparts to timer?? Now it´s always "00:00:09" (<--- example), but how can i get "00:00:09,87" (example again)??

[jamppa]

MASTERS WHERE ARE YOU??

[jamppa]

MASTERS WHERE ARE YOU??

[jamppa]

PLEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAASEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[piegopher]

How are you trying to use it?  Give me some context

[jamppa]

in a running game...i can´t copy it here cause notepad doesn´t understand it without problems, but i´ll try to write a little:

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TIME$ = "00:00:00"
TIMER ON
GOTO RUN

run:
PRINT "Your time:", TIME$
PRINT "Ran", j
INPUT h$
IF h$ = "j" or h$ = "J" THEN j = j + 2
IF j = 100 THEN GOTO goal
GOTO run

goal:

PRINT "Your time :", TIME$
IF TIME$ < "00:00:09" THEN PRINT "Good, you beat your opponent!"
IF TIME$ = "00:00:09" THEN PRINT "You get a tie, try again!"
IF TIME$ > "00:00:09" THEN PRINT "You lost."
INPUT qwerty$
GOTO menu

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Well, that was a simplified thing but i think you get the idea...HELP NEEDED!!!

[piegopher]

I've never used TIME$ before... hmmf-  Maybe I should try it sometime... but at any rate, here's how I did it-  I used TIMER instead-  Instead of returning a neat little hh:mm:ss display, timer gives out a weird decimal that covers really small times, meh-  here's the program I did (as usual I probably do some things a little too complicated than I should)

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TIMER ON
timei = TIMER
GOTO 1

1
TIME = INT((TIMER - timei) * 100) / 100
PRINT "Your time:", TIME
PRINT "Ran", j
INPUT h$
IF h$ = "j" OR h$ = "J" THEN j = j + 2
IF j = 100 THEN GOTO 2
GOTO 1

2
PRINT "Your time :", TIME
IF TIME < 9 THEN PRINT "Good, you beat your opponent!"
IF TIME = 9 THEN PRINT "You get a tie, try again!"
IF TIME > 9 THEN PRINT "You lost."
INPUT qwerty$
goto 3

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Probably the most confusing line in it would be

TIME = INT((TIMER - timei) * 100) / 100

so I'll explain it-  (TIMER - timei) gives me the time since timei was created (at the beginning of the program) in something like 8 decimal places.  INT rounds that number down to the nearest 1 (or second in this case), so to avoid losing those 2 extra decimals that you wanted I multiplied it by 100 before the INT and divide it by 100 afterwards to return the number to normal.  meh-  I hope that helps

[pebe]

Why don't you just use TIMER?  It will give time to 2 decimals. Like:

'get the times for each player in your prog based on time elapsed, using TIMER

IF player1! > player2! then PRINT "You lost"
IF player1! = player2! THEN PRINT " You drew"
IF player1! < player2!  THEN PRINT "You won"

[jamppa]

what do you mean??

[pebe]

You haven't shown all the program, but I assumed that you were timing a player's action or something. In that case you could time his start with start!=timer, and time his finish with finish!=timer. Timer rounds to 2 decimal places, so
 timetaken!=finish!-start!
The answer would be in seconds, eg. 54.23

If you want the *actual* time of the start and finish in the format you showed then it can be converted. If you want I'll post a routine for it.

[jamppa]

This doesn't work:

TIME$ = "00:00:00"
TIMER ON
GOTO RUN

run:
PRINT "Your time:", TIME$
PRINT "Ran", j
INPUT h$
IF h$ = "j" or h$ = "J" THEN j = j + 2
IF j = 100 THEN GOTO goal
GOTO run

goal:

PRINT "Your time :", TIME$
IF TIME$ < "00:00:09" THEN PRINT "Good, you beat your opponent!"
IF TIME$ = "00:00:09" THEN PRINT "You get a tie, try again!"
IF TIME$ > "00:00:09" THEN PRINT "You lost."
INPUT qwerty$
GOTO menu

Neither works this:

TIMER ON
timei = TIMER
GOTO 1

1
TIME = INT((TIMER - timei) * 100) / 100
PRINT "Your time:", TIME
PRINT "Ran", j
INPUT h$
IF h$ = "j" OR h$ = "J" THEN j = j + 2
IF j = 100 THEN GOTO 2
GOTO 1

2
PRINT "Your time :", TIME
IF TIME < 9 THEN PRINT "Good, you beat your opponent!"
IF TIME = 9 THEN PRINT "You get a tie, try again!"
IF TIME > 9 THEN PRINT "You lost."
INPUT qwerty$
goto 3

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I went back on QB from a 1-year break. But, I tried my running program and it doesn't work: time doesn't go on. It's just 00:00:00 and in the end of the game it's 00:00:01. PLEASE help me. The code is just like above.
I'd like you to join #jamppaweb @ IRCnet, for real-time help. Thank you.

[Elias]

the answer is quite simple!!

TIMEWITHDECIMAL$ = TIME$ + RIGHT$(STR$(TIMER), 3)