[Solved]Setting up a timer

[ajsb113]

Here's my code for the game thus far. I'm sorry about how unorganized/messy it is, it's a work in progress. Thanks for taking a look at it!

[Zoglu]

I got your timer to work by commenting out your updatePlayer call (file "Maruino", line 44). The problem might come from this !

EDIT : here is what you have at the beginning of your updatePlayer function :

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  if(time = 0){
    startGame();
  }

If I remember correctly, if(time = 0) doesn't check if time equals to 0, but instead changes time to 0 and returns true. You should try to change it to if(time == 0).

[ajsb113]

Thank you! I knew it was going to be something as stupid as a missing = sign . Thanks for checking it out!

[Myndale]

There's an interesting trick in the book Writing Secure Code (I think) in which you write these types of statements with the constant on the left hand side of the equation i.e. "if (0==time) ....". Reason being that constants cannot be assigned to, so if you do accidentally forget an equal sign the compiler will throw up an error.

[rodot]

There's an interesting trick in the book Writing Secure Code (I think) in which you write these types of statements with the constant on the left hand side of the equation i.e. "if (0==time) ....". Reason being that constants cannot be assigned to, so if you do accidentally forget an equal sign the compiler will throw up an error.

Nice tip, thanks!