Adjusting Timer

[xhunterko]

I've had this feature for a few games but it's been a while and I can't seem to find it.

Basically what happens is this:

A timer is ticking down to 0.
When the timer hits 0, a function is called.
THEN after the timer hits 0, the timer is reset.

HOWEVER, instead of being reset to it's old original time, each time it is reset, it loses a set amount of time. Say the original time was 10. When it resets, instead of 10, it's now 10-3. And it loses time on every reset.

Can someone do this for me? I can't remember how it's done.

Thanks.

[DleanJeans]

Basically like this:

timer.onComplete = function(timer:FlxTimer) {
    timer.time -= time; // say time = 3
    onTimerComplete();
}

[starry-abyss]

Hmm. Why do you need to reset the timer manually? Can you just set the loops parameter to 0 (which means infinite)?

[xhunterko]

@starry-abyss Because I want to slowly increase the rate of enemy spawn. Say instead of every 20 seconds, it's now 18, or 12, or 10, etc.

@DleanJeans You can make the FlxTimer a public object???

public var timer:FlxTimer;

I thought you couldn't?

[Gama11]

@xhunterko Why not?

[xhunterko]

@Gama11 Well. As per the example, and in examples I've seen. The timer is always called like this:

import flixel.util.FlxTimer;

// time (seconds), callback, loops
new FlxTimer().start(10.0, myCallback, 3);

private function myCallback(Timer:FlxTimer):Void
{
}

So I was not sure how it is called.