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Jedi Padawan
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Posted: 16th Mar 2010 06:22
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whenever I put in this code in my program:



, instead of incrementing by 1, it adds up by 69 or 37, whatever suits its mood.

Does it have something to do with sync rate?

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Benjamin
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Posted: 16th Mar 2010 06:34
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Without seeing the rest of your code it's hard to tell. I'm guessing you're running this code every loop, which means after a short amount of time it can be a very high value (half a second at 60fps would increment it by 30).
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Posted: 16th Mar 2010 06:35
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here is the same thing in a shorter form:



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Benjamin
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Posted: 16th Mar 2010 06:38
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I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do regarding the timer code. Could you explain?
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Posted: 16th Mar 2010 06:42
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when I run the program, the output is like this

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1
2
3
...
19
19
19...
"
At 19, or 18 or even 12, in continues spouting the same number for quite a while.
Then it continues incrmenting normally. However, at 39 or 40 etc it does the repeating thing again.

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Kevin Picone
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Posted: 16th Mar 2010 06:43
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I think it's meant to be incrementing every 5 seconds.


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Benjamin
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Posted: 16th Mar 2010 06:44 Edited at: 16th Mar 2010 06:47
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Well, explain what you are trying to do. It seems like you're trying to count every 5 seconds, or something along those lines?

[edit] What it's doing is updating the counter every frame on a second that is a multiple of 5. But what's it meant to be doing?
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Posted: 16th Mar 2010 06:48
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yep

in the full program, every 5 seconds, data in an array is stored. But with this problem, it defeats the purpose

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Posted: 16th Mar 2010 06:49
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Benjamin: I am not sure what you mean by your edit

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Posted: 16th Mar 2010 06:54 Edited at: 16th Mar 2010 06:55
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Well, you are getting the number of seconds elapsed and then saying "during every 5th second increment this variable". It'll increment until it counts another second. Try this:



Note that you should avoid using GOTO and instead use structured loops (such as DO/LOOP), and also I noticed you tried assigning 0 to timer which isn't allowed as it's a function.
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Posted: 16th Mar 2010 07:09 Edited at: 16th Mar 2010 07:09
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thanks for that. Now I have a different problem. The program is not putting in data to the array. Here is the code



I have already declared the array at the beginning - dim timeinc$(12)

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Posted: 16th Mar 2010 07:12
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You're jumping to 'printing', meaning any code directly after that won't get executed.
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Posted: 16th Mar 2010 21:19
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i feel dumb

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Posted: 17th Mar 2010 16:09
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Quote: "i feel dumb"

You should using goto's IMO

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Posted: 17th Mar 2010 21:17
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IMO? what does that mean?

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In My Opinion.



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Posted: 18th Mar 2010 02:51
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ah

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