Converting active GUI timer to C#

Original: http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/11458/how-to-make-a-timer-in-the-game.html
(attached to the end of this post for ease)

I'm trying to convert the answer above to C#. However, I've run into a couple of problems.

1. What type is guiTime/startTime supposed to be? If it's float, then...
2. What type should seconds, minutes, fractions be?
3. And the biggest one of all... How should String.Format be done? Should I just throw that out the window and format it myself?
4. (more like 3b) If I do convert all the floats to ints to strings and format the text myself, how should I make sure they're rounded properly?
5. Also I chose to throw in the assignment of startTime in the Start() function since I'm not sure if there's much of a difference but it seems like it'd be better than the Awake if there is any difference time-wise.

Thanks for all your help!

The code from the link as-is:

Code (csharp):

1.     private var startTime;
2.     var textTime : String; //added this member variable here so we can access it through other scripts
3.      
4.      
5.     function Awake() {
6.      
7.     startTime = Time.time;
8.      
9.     }
10.      
11.     function OnGUI () {
12.      
13.     var guiTime = Time.time - startTime;
14.      
15.     var minutes : int = guiTime / 60;
16.     var seconds : int = guiTime % 60;
17.     var fraction : int = (guiTime * 100) % 100;
18.      
19.     text = String.Format ("{0:00}:{1:00}:{2:000}", minutes, seconds, fraction);
20.     GUI.Label (Rect (400, 25, 100, 30), textTime); //changed variable name to textTime -->text is not a good variable name since it has other use already
21.      
22.     }

 

If I had a penny fir everytime I had to play guess the type for javascript variables I'd be a billionaire. Lol! Anyways, guiTime is a float and so is startTime. You could change minutes, seconds and fraction to floats as well and use Mathf.Round() to get properly rounded values. The string format is fine but you could also do it any other way you find comfortable.

 

This might help to

Debug.Log(guiTime.GetType());

^ I don't know javascript but I believe that is correct.

 

Just start typing Time.time and it will pop up a small box telling you that it is a float.

 

Thanks guys for the suggestions.

And yes, I actually started to try converting this. I did look up Time.time and made guiTimer and startTimer as floats. However, I ran not only into the problem of converting to int for the min/sec/fraction (which I wanted to use because I didn't know how to round them properly as ints and keep the timer looking correct) and also ran into the issue of String.Format. And then I wasn't sure of anything anymore

So, unitylover, about string format... Did you mean I should simply format it myself - using if-statements and such to see if they >= 60 and then set them back to 0 or such - or that there is a C# equivalent of String.format?

 

Can just do this:

Code (csharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3.  
4. public class blah : MonoBehaviour
5. {
6.     private float startTime;   
7.     private string textTime;   
8.     void Awake()
9.     {      
10.         startTime = Time.time;
11.     }
12.     void OnGUI ()
13.     {
14.         float guiTime = Time.time - startTime;
15.         int minutes = (int)guiTime / 60;
16.         int seconds = (int)guiTime % 60;
17.         int fraction = (int)(guiTime * 100f) % 100;    
18.         textTime = System.String.Format ("{0:00}:{1:00}:{2:00}", minutes, seconds, fraction);
19.         GUI.Label (new Rect (400f, 25f, 100f, 30f), textTime);
20.     }
21. }
22.  

 

Ah...


Thanks a ton! I guess I better check up to see what's available under System. And this actually simplifies everything.

Once again, thanks a ton.