org.lwjgl.util
Class Timer

java.lang.Object
  org.lwjgl.util.Timer

public class Timer
extends java.lang.Object

A hires timer. This measures time in seconds as floating point values. All Timers created are updated simultaneously by calling the static method tick(). This ensures that within a single iteration of a game loop that all timers are updated consistently with each other.

Version:

$Revision: 3418 $ $Id: Timer.java 3418 2010-09-28 21:11:35Z spasi $

Author:

cix_foo

Constructor Summary

Timer()
Constructs a timer.

Method Summary

float	getTime()
boolean	isPaused()
void	pause() Pause the timer.
void	reset() Reset the timer.
void	resume() Resume the timer.
void	set(float newTime) Set the time of this timer
static void	tick() Get the next time update from the system's hires timer.
java.lang.String	toString() Debug output.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Timer

public Timer()

Constructs a timer. The timer will be reset to 0.0 and resumed immediately.

Method Detail

getTime

public float getTime()

Returns:

the time in seconds, as a float

isPaused

public boolean isPaused()

Returns:

whether this timer is paused

pause

public void pause()

Pause the timer. Whilst paused the time will not change for this timer when tick() is called.

See Also:

resume()

reset

public void reset()

Reset the timer. Equivalent to set(0.0f);

See Also:

set(float)

resume

public void resume()

Resume the timer.

See Also:

pause()

set

public void set(float newTime)

Set the time of this timer

Parameters:

newTime - the new time, in seconds

tick

public static void tick()

Get the next time update from the system's hires timer. This method should be called once per main loop iteration; all timers are updated simultaneously from it.

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Debug output.

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object