How can I use the timer function. I want to record time elapsed.

I haven't found any tutorials or advice on making a clock for telling how much time has elapsed. I do not have the Dunn, et al text, pp. 252-257, could somebody just type up a quick answer? Thanks!

[nickster654]

Originally Posted by littleti

I haven't found any tutorials or advice on making a clock for telling how much time has elapsed. I do not have the Dunn, et al text, pp. 252-257, could somebody just type up a quick answer? Thanks!

orrrr you could make a number variable
make it increment by 1 duration 1 second
and put it in a loop infinitely at the beginning of your animation

[reuben2011]

There is also the "time elapsed" function in the world's function's tab. Let us know if you help using it.

Thanks for your replies. I will try nickster's Idea, but I my main question, since I found the time elapsed button is, how does that thing work??? I couldn't figure it out. Has Alice thought about how they do it on Scratch, where you can right click on any of the code blocks and it will give you a pop-up quick explanation of how it's used? That would make a lot of these tutorials unnecessary. Just a thought! -t

[reuben2011]

The time elasped doesn't restart every time you open the world. It's kind of weird. You need to create an offset variable, set it equal to the time elasped at eh beginning of the program, and use (time elapsed - offset) to get the true time that has elasped.