TickCount / BattleMsg

[teh jimpie]

hey

I want to change the battlemessage's time.
I've looked up for it in the source at the time but, at the time it says: "GetTickCount". Where is that exactly? Isnt it just set by a timer? Im using eclipse stable 1.2.2

thanks

[balliztik1]

When the text appears, it records a variable set to GetTickCount, which holds the amount of time a program has been running, in milliseconds, if I'm not mistaken. Regardless, you can check that variable against the current GetTickCount value.

[teh jimpie]

@Ballie:

> When the text appears, it records a variable set to GetTickCount, which holds the amount of time a program has been running, in milliseconds, if I'm not mistaken. Regardless, you can check that variable against the current GetTickCount value.

I'm sorry, I'm not understanding 100%. So every TickCount is a diffrent time? That's obviously.
But where is the TickCount value then?

[balliztik1]

You don't need to know the current Tick value. All you need to know is that it stores a number used to tell time. Let me show you some sample code.

```
x = GetTickCount
Do
    If x < GetTickCount - 5000 Then
        MsgBox "5 seconds have passed"
        Exit Sub
    End If
Loop
```
This checks the current TickCount against x, a value set before the loop. When the current Tick is 5000 milliseconds greater than x, that means 5 seconds have passed.

More practically, look at this:

```
                    For I = 1 To MAX_BLT_LINE
                        If BattlePMsg(I).Index > 0 Then
                            If BattlePMsg(I).Time + 7000 > GetTickCount Then
                                Call DrawText(TexthDC, 1 + sx, BattlePMsg(I).y + frmMirage.picScreen.Height - 15 + sx, Trim$(BattlePMsg(I).Msg), QBColor(BattlePMsg(I).color))
                            Else
                                BattlePMsg(I).Done = 0
                            End If
                        End If

                        If BattleMMsg(I).Index > 0 Then
                            If BattleMMsg(I).Time + 7000 > GetTickCount Then
                                Call DrawText(TexthDC, (frmMirage.picScreen.Width - (Len(BattleMMsg(I).Msg) * 8)) + sx, BattleMMsg(I).y + frmMirage.picScreen.Height - 15 + sx, Trim$(BattleMMsg(I).Msg), QBColor(BattleMMsg(I).color))
                            Else
                                BattleMMsg(I).Done = 0
                            End If
                        End If
                    Next I
```
BattlePMsg(I).Time is the millisecond that the message was received. This particular loop checks for if the message has surpassed 7000 milliseconds of display time. You can easily edit that as you need. :)

[teh jimpie]

So I just change that 7000 in that code to the ammount of miliseconds I want?

Also, should it be possible to have 30 seconds on the left, and 7 seconds on the right? Im making a pm system so Im using the left for the messages  XD

[balliztik1]

Yup. Just change the first 7000 to 30000\. The second one is the right side.

[teh jimpie]

thanks :)