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Adept Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 226

Don't know if anyone's interested, but thought i'd post this:

Wanderer Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 93 Location: USA

I was just curious about this, what Version are you using this on? On my version, as soon as I type startt, 2 seconds later, no matter what, it says Times up! no matter what I set it to.

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 5:51 am

Aarlot... i have been looking thru the help files of Zmud and on forums for some sort of a timer for a while now. Yours is the first like this that i've found. Wow!

It worked a charm for me, but i couldnt help tinkering with a copy of it too.

I hope you dont mind that I''ve modified it to count 'upwards' instead of a countdown, so it keeps an approximate time like a stopwatch... its to go with an xp tracker.

Included below for your reference...

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 5:25 am

I couldn't figure out how to get the timer to countup Kalgores, any chance you can post the whole code because mine doesn't echo the right time on the reporttime, it always says 0 because I don't have your trigger titled "timer" I think. If it's something on my end, I'd appreciate any clarification you could provide. Cool idea fellas, hope I can get it to work. :-)

EDIT: Aarlot, On the countdown, you use both the variable timersec (which doesn't exist in your code) and timersecs (which does exist). That's the only problem I was having with the countdown.

EDIT #2: Kalgores, you need to have the variable "secs" set to 1 instead of zero, otherwise secs>0 won't cause it to #ADD secs 1 because secs=0 not secs>0 So the timer is 1 second off, but it works perfectly otherwise.

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 8:28 am

DaHart85: That was all the code for that timer, but you said you did get it working. Cool. Thanks for your constructive reply, in the end though, i didnt continue using that timer for accuracy purposes. I found another way around it. See below ;)

Using a complicated '#MATH' and an inbuilt Zmud variable i finally found and should have known of sooner.... '%ctime'

the '%ctime' is the time connected to the mud, its a number you can use very handily for counting, so long as you know when you started counting, which of course you just make a unique variable of the %ctime, like 'startingtime' or whatever else.