wait() delay with a stopwatch?
I'm trying to make a stopwatch, but the timer is out of sync with any other stopwatch. Using some printing, I have discerned that there is a single millisecond delay about every other tick. It is off sync by one second about every minute and a half. As you can tell, 1000 milliseconds do not happen with a half a millisecond delay over 90 seconds. So where did the extra 955 milliseconds come from?
Code:
while true do
wait(1)
alive += 1
textLabel.Text = alive.." Seconds"
end
There was also a much larger delay when ticking 10 times a second, up to a second of delay per two seconds. Also then, every other go took 30-40 milliseconds. The other ones took one millisecond, so once again, where did the extra milliseconds come from?
1 answer
i think it's because wait is never accurate, that's why it returns 2 values and the first one is the actual time it yielded (delta time) so if you waited for 1 second it will return sometimes for example 1.03...
With this you can add the actual time it yielded to the timer by doing this:
while true do
alive += wait(1) -- adds first value wait returns to it
textLabel.Text = math.round(alive) .. " Seconds"
end
I used math.round which rounds numbers because you don't want the timer to be 5.234029038528429348237584875283402384027582374 seconds.