Recording minutes and seconds

[AndyCapple123]

I need some help with a timer. In my game, I have multiple mini-games with a "best time" record keeper. This is easy enough for me to do when it comes to seconds, but I think that just recording seconds would be tacky and absurd. However, with minutes, it is a *major* pain to program. I was hoping that someone could help me find a solution or a workaround to this, because even though I believe I've mastered a good deal of MMF2 (my game is intensely complicated with many replayability features), this is the one place where I believe I need all the help I can possibly get.

Also, as I've made this post, does anyone else have choppy framerate when running games in Windows 7? I don't get choppiness if I have Aero Glass turned off, but what's strange is that when I ran games on Vista (also with Aero Glass turned on), I've never had these issues.

[DavidN]

Recording only seconds underneath will make things a lot easier for you, but you can display these seconds by dividing them up into minutes and seconds. With a counter called "seconds" as the total number of seconds, you could set a String's alterable string to:

Str$(floor(value("seconds")/60)) + ":" + Str$(value("seconds") mod 60)

This is from memory, so it may need some adjustment... this expression displays the result of dividing the total time by 60 on the left of the : (rounding any remainder down), and the right hand side displays the remainder when the time is divided by 60.

[RickyRombo]

Or...

Str$(minutes)+":"+Right$("0"+Str$(seconds), 2)

[LB]

RickyRombo, he's not keeping track of minutes, only seconds, so it adds up to over 60 seconds and keeps going.

[RickyRombo]

I need some help with a timer. In my game, I have multiple mini-games with a "best time" record keeper. This is easy enough for me to do when it comes to seconds, but I think that just recording seconds would be tacky and absurd.

I actually skimmed this and missed most of the information, but saw DavidN's solution and offered mine.

I was assuming he could use the inbuilt timer, and I seem to be mistaking

[AndyCapple123]

I also need to ask again before this gets lost...for anyone running MMF2 or MMF2 games/apps on Windows 7, does anyone have jerky framerate? I run games with Aero Glass turned on and get noticeably jerky animations and scrolling, but with it off, it's smooth like it should be. However, I've never had this problem even with Vista on my older laptop, so that's what has me wondering.

[turtle]

I am running Windows 7 Ultimate with Aero turned on. So far seems ok.