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[Mr Ekted]

Easy answer: write your bots in a real language.
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[Dr Brain]

It uses the same operating system calls as the C equivelent, Ekted. So quit your moaning.
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[Mr Ekted]

Then why are we having this discussion? Just use GetTickCount(). Problem solved. End of thread.

[Cerium@school]

Theyre debating the usefullness of the system tick count vs system time. Java 1.5 seems to be able to get both, but 1.4.x and prior only have the system time available.

As its already been said, stop worrying about a few isolated cases where the system clock will change and just implement the basic uptime.

Code: Show/Hide long lngStart = System.currentTimeMillis(); public long getUptime() { return System.currentTimeMillis() - lngStart; }

[Bak]

in C/C++ I'd just use time(0) to get the seconds, since he's uninteresting in milliseconds and this value won't overflow for many years.
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[Cyan~Fire]

I had the same idea myself. You might want to give that sig an alpha layer though.
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[Bak]

any open source Transparent GIF editor (or PNG, I suppose)? I wish I could do it in paint, but I suppose no program's perfect. GIMP refuses to install on my computer.

[Cyan~Fire]

Sorry, I couldn't get it exactly right, but this one should be better. (Works in FF, but IE still can't handle PNG transparency.)

[cypher@lazy]

You can make transparent PNGs easily w/ php w/ use of the GD2 extension; which is pretty sweet.

[Bak]

Good work. Windows still craps out trying to preview it, but it works on Firefox. What did you use to create it?

[Cyan~Fire]

GIMP. You should really get that to install...

[BDwinsAlt]

I figured it out on my own. It looked to simple so i thought it was wrong.


Heres my code.

Code: Show/Hide long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis(); .......................................... .......................................... public void buptime(String name, String msg){             long difference = System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime;             int days = (int)(Math.floor(difference/1000/60/60/24));          int hours = (int)(Math.round( (difference/60/60 % 24000)/1000));             int minutes = (int)Math.round( (difference/60 % 60000)/1000 );             int seconds = (int)Math.round( (difference % 60000)/1000 );             m_botAction.sendPrivateMessage( name, "Bot has been up for " + days + " day(s) " + hours + " hour(s) " + minutes + " minute(s) and " + seconds + " second(s)." );             }

Thanks guys.

P.S.: When my new pc comes in and I install my Visual C++ CD i will use c++.

I'll still use java to but i'll give C++ a chance.

[Dr Brain]

Let me just be clear and say that the Java language cannot be held responsible for the above code.

[Solo Ace]

Indeed, don't blame the languages for your sucking on programming.

[BDwinsAlt]

LOL.

What ever. It works...

[Bak]

yeah, it works fine. no need to wrap Dates around something as simple as this

[BDwinsAlt]

I agree with Bak.
Unless he's being sarcastic ...

Im still new to java so if their's an easier way to do something let me know. I plan to actually stop and buy a few books around Chirstmas. Right now all i know is wha i've learned in about 2 months i guess.

Im used to doing things with Trial and Error.

[Cerium]

Add in a touch of common sense and youll be a lot better off. For instance, most people hate doing lots of pointless repetitive math problems; the same can be said about computers.

Im kind of suprised ekted hasnt thrown up on his keyboard and posted something explaining how he was daming your name while cleaning it up.
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[Bak]

even Java should be able to optimize

difference/1000/60/60/24

to

difference/86400000

[Cerium]

Do you always rely on the compiler to optimize your code?

BD shouldnt get in the habit (or impression) that the compiler can/will always clean up his code.

[Mr Ekted]

[Cyan~Fire]