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General / Re: Real Time Keyboard Input

« on: March 14, 2016, 09:05:17 pm »

I tried that it did not  work the way I want it to. It simply ignores some of the input and accepts some. The game im writing uses a lot of window clear and display and for that reason I think it skips input from the keyboard. It works perfectly fine with the real time keyboard input except i do not want it to take continuous input.

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General / Re: I want to make sprites appear with a random time delay

« on: March 14, 2016, 09:00:26 pm »

Thank you Jesper what do you recommend then?

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General / Real Time Keyboard Input

« on: March 14, 2016, 09:00:01 pm »

I am using real time keyboard input to get immediate response within my game.

if (sf::Keyboard::isKeyPressed(sf::Keyboard::Space) && x == 5) {
         std::cout << "space" << std::endl;
      }

The thing is I want it to take that input only one time. I tried using event from some reason it skips the keyboard input many times if I am using events but, this works perfectly except that it takes way too much input since its real time. Is there a way to make it take one spacebar hit and stop for a while lets say 2 seconds.

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General / Re: I want to make sprites appear with a random time delay

« on: March 14, 2016, 07:02:50 pm »

Well the way I did it was like so

sf::Time t1 = sf::milliseconds(500);
      sf::Time t2 = sf::milliseconds(1000);
      time = clock.getElapsedTime();
      sf::Event Event;
      if ((time.asMilliseconds() >= t1.asMilliseconds()) && (time.asMilliseconds() <= t2.asMilliseconds())) {
      clock.restart();
}

Basically that way it will meet this condition only once then the clock will restart achieving the delay effect I wanted. I understand if statements but, the way you went about it is just different.

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General / Re: I want to make sprites appear with a random time delay

« on: March 14, 2016, 11:30:21 am »

Actually I was able to solve my problem in a completely different way on my own which is fine. But, because I want to learn more and have a thirst for knowledge I am asking since I tried to understand the logic behind the code you put here and didn't really get the Boolean part? That's why I am asking. It's fine to ask questions when you don't understand otherwise you won't learn. As for asking for code to copy paste in that's obviously not what I am asking for because that is pointless and each and every program is written in a different way.

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General / Re: I want to make sprites appear with a random time delay

« on: March 13, 2016, 08:42:58 pm »

I don't really understand the code you sent me ?
Why is mvalue which is a bool less than time zero? What are you achieving with the += and the -= Please elaborate ..

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General / Re: I want to make sprites appear with a random time delay

« on: March 13, 2016, 07:02:10 pm »

Bump anyone?

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General / Re: I want to make sprites appear with a random time delay

« on: March 13, 2016, 01:58:45 am »

Alright back on topic haha. The random and all worked great. I want to be able to delay with time though for example

if (bla = bla){

Dosomething;

Wait 5 seconds then start again from the top
}

How can I do that using time or clock?

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General / Re: I want to make sprites appear with a random time delay

« on: March 12, 2016, 09:17:55 pm »

That advice worked perfectly. Now, how can I make random variables?
float x for example

I want x to carry random numbers in a certain range? For example from 5-9

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General / Re: I want to make sprites appear with a random time delay

« on: March 12, 2016, 07:52:03 pm »

Ok so I removed the window clear and my code worked but now the sprite is flashing non stop I want it to be a stable image. What is causing this flashing if the condition of the time has been met?

I figured that this was due to me placing the code in the event poll area instead of the window open area.. Now how can I generate a random time within a certain time range for example. Generate random seconds between 5-10 seconds?

Also I realized that it will continue to draw the sprite continuously since the condition was met I only want it to draw the sprite once and thats it. How can I do that?

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General / Re: I want to make sprites appear with a random time delay

« on: March 12, 2016, 02:11:09 pm »

It is after my window draw and window display. Is this what's causing the issue?

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General / Re: I want to make sprites appear with a random time delay

« on: March 12, 2016, 04:11:23 am »

Yes of course window display and window clear

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General / Re: I want to make sprites appear with a random time delay

« on: March 12, 2016, 03:55:00 am »

Ok I will clarify,

As a test I first created the following:

sf::Clock clock;
   sf::Time time;
      time = clock.getElapsedTime();
   while (Window.isOpen()) {
      sf::Event Event;
      while (Window.pollEvent(Event)) {
         sf::Time t1 = sf::seconds(10.0);
         time = clock.getElapsedTime();
         std::cout << time.asSeconds() << std::endl;
         std::cout << t1.asSeconds() << std::endl;

         if (time.asSeconds() >= t1.asSeconds()) {
            std::cout << "player 1 is drawn";

         }

With this code I do in fact get "Player 1 is drawn" on the console after 10 seconds. However when I place the following code,

Window.draw(PlayerTwo); in the if statement and i already defined the sprite image and texture before in main. Nothing gets drawn on my window. What is going on here? There are no errors too.

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General / Re: I want to make sprites appear with a random time delay

« on: March 12, 2016, 12:08:00 am »

Yes I figured it out by doing this

sf::Clock Clock;
   sf::Time time;
      time = Clock.getElapsedTime();
      Clock.restart();

But how can I make sprites appear at random times within a certain time range somehow?

Also when I do something like this

if (time.asSeconds() >= 10.0f) {
            Window.draw(Player1);
         }

It just doesn't work. The code runs fine but nothing is drawn after the 10 seconds pass

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General / I want to make sprites appear with a random time delay

« on: March 12, 2016, 12:02:01 am »

I want to make certain sprites appear with a random time delay. For some reason just putting in this code in the beginning of main to begin with.


   sf::Clock clock;
      Time time1 = clock.getElapsedTime();
      Time time2 = clock.restart();

It gives me an error that time is an undeclared identifier? How can I go about doing this.