I created a game and in my swing GUI interface i want to put a timer . The way i do this at the moment is have a field with the current time , gotten with System.currentTimeMillis()
which gets it's value when the game starts .In the method of my game i put the System.currentTimeMillis()
- field; and it tells you the current time passed since the game started.
Nevertheless, how do get this to update itself every second lets say, so the JLabel
will have : timePassed: 0s , timePassed: 1s and so on. Have in mind that i don't use threads in my game at any point.
EDIT: thank you all for your kind suggestions. I used a combination of your answers please give me some feedback.
I have the jlabel as a field called time. (else i cant handle it).
time = new JLabel("Time Passed: " + timePassed() + " sec");
panel_4.add(time);
ActionListener actionListener = new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent actionEvent) {
time.setText("Time Passed: " + timePassed() + " sec");
}
};
Timer timer = new Timer(1000, actionListener);
timer.start();
Have a look at the swing timer class. It allows to setup recurring tasks quite easily.
This is how I would set my JLabel to update with time & date.
Timer SimpleTimer = new Timer(1000, new ActionListener(){
@Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
jLabel1.setText(SimpleDay.format(new Date()));
jLabel2.setText(SimpleDate.format(new Date()));
jLabel3.setText(SimpleTime.format(new Date()));
}
});
SimpleTimer.start();
This is then added to your main class and the jlabel1/2/3 get updated with the timer.
new Thread(new Runnable
{
public void run()
{
long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
while (true)
{
long time = System.currentTimeMillis() - start;
int seconds = time / 1000;
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run()
{
label.setText("Time Passed: " + seconds);
}
});
try { Thread.sleep(100); } catch(Exception e) {}
}
}
}).start();
wirite this in Constructor
ActionListener taskPerformer = new ActionListener() {
@Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
jMenu11.setText(CurrentTime());
}
};
Timer t = new Timer(1000, taskPerformer);
t.start();
And this Write out Constructor
public String CurrentTime(){
Calendar cal = new GregorianCalendar();
int second = cal.get(Calendar.SECOND);
int min = cal.get(Calendar.MINUTE);
int hour = cal.get(Calendar.HOUR);
String s=(checkTime(hour)+":"+checkTime(min)+":"+checkTime(second));
jMenu11.setText(s);
return s;
}
public String checkTime(int t){
String time1;
if (t < 10){
time1 = ("0"+t);
}
else{
time1 = (""+t);
}
return time1;
}