[ADDED] Adding Stopwatch to CITPhone

[Anwar]

So, my suggestion is to add stopwatch in CITPhone (B) because we may need it in trainings, sometimes I make specific time to make chemicals in it so I need a stopwatch, and if I will use my mobile, I just waste battery, I am not sure if this was suggested before, but give me your opinions

Community opinion:

This should be helpful as you said, especially for training purposes and other RP things. One thing though, can we have the option to save the  the time period of the stopwatch so we can do comparisons at the end of a training or just to see how quick a car can go around the map etc. via different routes?
Anyway Upvoted as it would be useful.

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Well a simple stopwatch can contain a Reset feature, start feature, stop feature and close feature. If we use setTimer function, its minimum value is 50ms so it is possible in efficient way but if we use onClientPreRender, we can have it in better way like, we can count even 1ms.

I made this:

Code: Lua

1. local sw, sh = guiGetScreenSize()
2. main_wnd = guiCreateWindow((sw/5 - 539/5), (sh/5 - 285/5), 214, 220, "CIT - Stopwatch", false)
3.     guiWindowSetSizable(main_wnd, false)
4.     guiSetAlpha(main_wnd, 0.92)
5. watch_lbl = guiCreateLabel(9, 24, 195, 53, "Seconds: \nMinute(s): \nHour(s): \nMilliseconds: ", false, main_wnd)
6.     guiSetFont(watch_lbl, "default-bold-small")
7. start_btn = guiCreateButton(9, 79, 195, 33, "Start", false, main_wnd)
8.     guiSetFont(start_btn, "default-bold-small")
9. stop_btn = guiCreateButton(9, 112, 195, 33, "Stop", false, main_wnd)
10.     guiSetFont(stop_btn, "default-bold-small")
11. reset_btn = guiCreateButton(9, 145, 195, 33, "Reset", false, main_wnd)
12.     guiSetFont(reset_btn, "default-bold-small")
13. close_btn = guiCreateButton(9, 178, 195, 33, "Close", false, main_wnd)
14.     guiSetFont(close_btn, "default-bold-small")
15.         guiSetProperty(close_btn, "NormalTextColour", "FFFF0000")    
16. guiSetVisible(main_wnd, false)
17.  
18. local milisec = 0
19. local second = 0
20. local minute = 0
21. local hour = 0
22. local handled = false
23.  
24. function startFixing()
25.         guiSetText(watch_lbl,"Seconds: "..second.."\nMinute(s): "..minute.."\nHour(s): "..hour.."\nMilliseconds: "..milisec)
26. end
27. addEventHandler("onClientResourceStart",root, startFixing)
28.  
29. addCommandHandler("stopwatch",function()
30.         guiSetVisible(main_wnd,true)
31.         showCursor(true)
32.         guiSetEnabled(reset_btn, false)
33.         guiSetEnabled(stop_btn, false)
34. end)
35.  
36. function startTimer()
37.         timing = setTimer(startTime, 50, 0)
38.         guiSetEnabled(start_btn,false)
39.         guiSetEnabled(stop_btn,true)
40.         guiSetEnabled(reset_btn,true)
41. end
42. addEventHandler("onClientGUIClick", start_btn, startTimer, false)
43.  
44. function stopTimer()
45.         killTimer(timing)
46.         guiSetEnabled(stop_btn,false)
47.         guiSetEnabled(start_btn,true)
48.         guiSetEnabled(reset_btn,true)
49. end
50. addEventHandler("onClientGUIClick", stop_btn, stopTimer, false)
51.  
52. function resetTimer()
53.         if (timing) then killTimer(timing) else return end
54.         milisec = 0
55.         second = 0
56.         minute = 0
57.         hour = 0
58.         guiSetText(watch_lbl,"Seconds: "..second.."\nMinute(s): "..minute.."\nHour(s): "..hour.."\nMilliseconds: "..milisec)
59. end
60. addEventHandler("onClientGUIClick", reset_btn, resetTimer, false)
61.  
62. function closeGui()
63.         if (timing) then killTimer(timing) else return end
64.         guiSetVisible(main_wnd,false)
65.         showCursor(false)
66.         guiSetEnabled(stop_btn,false)
67.         guiSetEnabled(start_btn,true)
68.         guiSetEnabled(reset_btn,true)
69. end
70. addEventHandler("onClientGUIClick", close_btn, closeGui, false)
71.  
72. function startTime()
73.         handled=true
74.         if(milisec==1000)then
75.                 milisec=0
76.                 second=second+1
77.                 if(second==59)then
78.                         second=0
79.                         minute=minute+1
80.                         if(minute==59)then
81.                                 hour=hour+1
82.                         end
83.                 end
84.         else
85.                 milisec=milisec+50
86.         end
87.         guiSetText(watch_lbl,"Seconds: "..second.."\nMinute(s): "..minute.."\nHour(s): "..hour.."\nMilliseconds: "..milisec)
88. end
89.  
90. addEventHandler("onClientResourceStop",root,function()
91.         removeEventHandler("onClientPreRender",root,startTime)
92. end)
93.  

Unfortunately, its unacceptable by Arran so I thought if someone's gonna make this feature, he might get help by this. Upvoting the suggestion anyways.

This image would be good if this feature gets added in iPhone.

[Egekan]

Yeah it will be useful for me too. I always use my mobile phone while farming like you so I waste my battery too. As you know there is already a watch in B, stopwatch can be in same things witg it I mean stopwatch can be placed near it.

[VazZ]

To stop the desperate use of "phone battery" as the only argument for why this should be added ingame:

http://onlineclock.net/
http://stopwatch.onlineclock.net/
http://countdown.onlineclock.net/

Has in-built alarm sound, so you can use it for farming as well. Just minimize MTA for 4 seconds, not that hard >.<. Anyways, upvoted cause I don't care

[Egekan]

To stop the desperate use of "phone battery" as the only argument for why this should be added ingame:

http://onlineclock.net/
http://stopwatch.onlineclock.net/
http://countdown.onlineclock.net/

Has in-built alarm sound, so you can use it for farming as well. Just minimize MTA for 4 seconds, not that hard >.<. Anyways, upvoted cause I don't care

Well there are some people in CIT, if they minimize MTA SA they won't be able to return back to game. My friend has this problem. I am pretty sure there are more people who have this problem. Also it is useful for players. Why there is clock in CIT phone? Is it hard to mnimize MTA and look at the windows clock and return the game? Why there is translator in CIT phone? is it hard to minimize MTA and open a translator? They added becuase they are useful things, stopwatch is useful thing too.

[Lynx]

This should be helpful as you said, especially for training purposes and other RP things. One thing though, can we have the option to save the  the time period of the stopwatch so we can do comparisons at the end of a training or just to see how quick a car can go around the map etc. via different routes?
Anyway Upvoted as it would be useful.

[Ryan.]

Well a simple stopwatch can contain a Reset feature, start feature, stop feature and close feature. If we use setTimer function, its minimum value is 50ms so it is possible in efficient way but if we use onClientPreRender, we can have it in better way like, we can count even 1ms.

[Arran]

Well a simple stopwatch can contain a Reset feature, start feature, stop feature and close feature. If we use setTimer function, its minimum value is 50ms so it is possible in efficient way but if we use onClientPreRender, we can have it in better way like, we can count even 1ms.

I told you why you couldn't use onClient/Pre/Render even this timer will suffer a similar problem but not as bad. Your script assumes that they have a good frame rate and therefore everything will trigger at exactly the right time. If someone has a low FPS like 10, the 50ms timers won't execute after 50ms they'd execute twice in one go, every 100ms (10 FPS means screen refreshes every 100ms) hopefully though with the timer system they should still execute meaning that in the long run the time won't actually get desynced from the real time. Your on render system would DEFINITELY have got desynced on a low (or high) FPS.

I had to fix some flaws in your script, bad format, strange GUI position and failure to dereference to timer variable after killing the timer. Other than that though it was easy to add to the server. Oh and you couldn't close the GUI without starting the timer first.