Brutus2D

The timers object of Brutus2D provides the ability to create up to 10 high-resolution timers. The timers measure units in seconds. It is useful for creating game timers. Notice that when you do this, the 'game timer' will be based on real-time, not loopins.

Initialization

• timers.Initialize - start the timers object
• timers.Create() - creates a new timer
• There is no terminate method

Control

• timers.Start - starts a timer going
• timers.Hold - pauses a timer
• timers.Reset - resets a timer to zero

Read Elapsed Time

• timers.SplitTime() - returns time elapsed since last call to SplitTime
• timers.AppTime() - returns time elapsed since timer started
• timers.SysTime() - returns the system's time since powerup

Notes

These functions also deal with time and dates in Brutus2D but are not part of the Timers object.

• date() - returns current date as a string formated according to your systems regional settings for short notation.
• time() - returns the time of day as a string formated according to your systems regional settings for short notation.
• timer() - returns the amount of seconds passed since midnight.