controlling timers

hello all,

I was wondering how I could tell a timer to increase a variable each set time interval by 1. the idea behind is that I want to have a list or tree, whose branches or positions grow by time. is anyone familiar with this?

thanks in advance

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Permalink Reply by taz on March 2, 2010 at 4:58pm

Well, you could use theEngine from Grasshopper Tools in C#.

The output is a counter which you can use to drive other things (like exploding letters).

I used it because I couldn't figure out a way to use the GH timer to make an incremental counter, but I'm there may be a way, but it would be scripted.

Permalink Reply by dominik nuessen on March 2, 2010 at 7:50pm

taz,
thanks a lot! I added two input double variables, temp and xx. xx is a refresh-synchronized value from my wii controller, it updates every 50 ms. now I've tried to add all the incoming values to the former values. temp is set to 0 and should grow while the timer runs. since I didn't have any experiences with c#.net I changed the code like this:

//Set static variables
eventOn = isOn;
stopAge = (stopAt == 0 ? Int32.MaxValue : stopAt);

//Start timer
if(isOn && frameCount < stopAge){
timer.Start();

do {
temp = temp + xx;
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(50);
}
while (frameCount < stopAge);

} else {
timer.Stop();
}

//Reset
if(reset != null){
frameCount = 0;
}

//Return value
C = temp;

but it doesn't work. do you have any ideas?

Permalink Reply by taz on March 3, 2010 at 11:41am

Sorry, C# isn't my department...

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