Delays

[mrkirby153]

How would I add a delay between something? I have a class that builds a house and I would like to add a 1/2 second delay between each block placement

[hydroflame]

shoot the task ti another thread and handle everything from there 

 

hint: Thread.sleep(500); wont do anything for 500ms

[hydroflame]

why the hell not, it works

[hydroflame]

the only i could see why it would fail is because of ssp when a player switch dimention. but if that happens just make a playertracker and send the message to the thread and ask it to finish all at once.

 

i guess scheduledtickhandler could be more "safe" but my during my test i wasn't able to make it blow up with another thread ....

[hydroflame]

heu .. the method that buidl the structure wouldnt be public

 

 

pseudo code of what i did:

public class StructurebuilderThread extends Thread{
    private ConcurrentLinkedQueue<BuildTask> tasks = new ConcurrentLinkedQueue<BuildTask>();
    public void addBuildTask(World world, int x, int y, int z){
        tasks.add(new BuildMyStructure(world, x, y, z));
    }

    public void run(){
        while(true){
            if(there is a task in queue){
                executeTask(tasks.poll());
            }
        }
    }

    private void executeTask(BuildTask task){
        //actual building here
    }
}

 

anyway op, diesieben is right you should use ScheduledTickHandler

[mrkirby153]

How would I implement a tickhandler into https://github.com/mrkirby153/MscHouses/blob/master/common/mrkirby153/MscHouses/generation/HouseGen.java between the world.setBlock()

[mrkirby153]

May I please have an example? I'm a visual learner when it comes to code

[Mazetar]

How proficient are you with OOP?

[mrkirby153]

What's OOP?

[Mazetar]

What's OOP?

 

It's time to go back to school mate

 

Either: courses.vswe.se or http://see.stanford.edu/see/lecturelist.aspx?coll=824a47e1-135f-4508-a5aa-866adcae1111

 

Free courses which you need!

[mrkirby153]

Actually, I was talking about the acronym. What does OOP mean? Ive never heard the acronym

[hydroflame]

object oriented programming, a term probably as common as LOL in the programming world

[mrkirby153]

OH! I'm pretty proficient with OOP then

[mrkirby153]

I also created a Schedueld Tick Handler that "fires" a tick every .5 seconds. Maybe I can use that?

[hydroflame]

sure

[mrkirby153]

But, I don't know how to!

 

Also, in my tick handler, every 1/2 seconds it increases a variable and I have a method to reset the variable back to 0

 

[hydroflame]

every time your tickhandler ticks ... create a new block of the structure

[mrkirby153]

May I please have an example?

[Mazetar]

Inside the tickHandler, when it ticks check if there are anything needing to get placed.

Place one of the blocks and remove it from the list of things getting placed.

done.

[mrkirby153]

May I have a CODE example?

[Mazetar]

May I have a CODE example?

 

I'm having problems writing a code example which shows you how to do it, without being the full solution to the problem aka. without being copy-> paste material.

 

tbh. the above statments shouldn't be too hard to be put into pseudocode.

If you are planning this and struggling to understand what diesieben and the others said above, maybe you should try laying it out in pseudocode and let us know what you have problems with understanding?

[mrkirby153]

Here's my pseudocode:

 

set block at x, y, z to Stone
reset tickCount
wait until tickCount equals 1
set block at x, y+1, z to Grass

 

But my problem is how to wait until tickCount is 1

[Mazetar]

Here's my pseudocode:

 

set block at x, y, z to Stone
reset tickCount
wait until tickCount equals 1
set block at x, y+1, z to Grass

 

But my problem is how to wait until tickCount is 1

 

The tick count must be inside the TickHandler not inside the TE.

The TE could just initialize the process, then the tick handler does the rest?

[mrkirby153]

TickCount IS inside the TickHandler, I forgot to add that 

[Mazetar]

TickCount IS inside the TickHandler, I forgot to add that 

 

Well there are way better ways, but you could loop trhough all the blocks, placing them one by one. Then break out of the loop after a set number of blocks (in this case 1) and then keep a track of where you where in the loop between ticks?