Timer implementation

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How can you implement some kind of timer, to know how much time did user spend for one round of a game?

What context? Is this a Swing GUI program? – Hovercraft Full Of Eels Jun 18 '11 at 17:49 — Hovercraft Full Of Eels, Jun 18 '11 at 17:49

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 18 '11 at 17:35

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One can easily find the time spent by a user on one round of a game by using System.nanoTime() function. However if you want to implement in a game, you would probably like the timer to also be displayed to the user, you can you use multi-threading for the same.

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Nanoseconds are not only unnecessarily granular, but they are typically inaccurate. Especially when you consider the numerous levels of abstraction between the program being written and the actual clock. – Peaches491 Jun 18 '11 at 20:08

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 18 '11 at 19:46

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Getting System.currentTimeMillis will get your system time to the millisecond. If you want to do a Swing event intermittently, such as displaying the current time in a stop watch or a simple animation, then a Swing Timer would work well.

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