Stopwatch or Timer in a simple C program
Hey Guys..Was just wondering if its possible to make a stopwatch or timer in C for example if I asked the user for a value and he took too long to enter the value the timer would be counting 5 seconds ..when 5 seconds are done...the program tells the user TIME OUT!-Game Over
Thanks in advance for all
Not terribly easy to do. What can be done fairly easy is to take a timestamp before the question is asked, then take the time again after, and determine if it "took too long".
To put a timeout on the input and "do something else" if there's a timeout is much more complicated, both because you have to deal with non-portable, non-standardized code, but also because you need to be careful how exactly you solve the problem.
If you really want to do this, you will need to look at "How can I read input without the user hitting enter" in the FAQ to begin with. Then you may need to add further code to set up the timeout for it.
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You asked the same question 3 days ago.
Are you amnesic or what ? There's even answer for your question in the other thread, one (which I gave) for POSIX-compliant system, the other (which MacGyver gave) for Windows.
What do you want to know more with this thread ? If there's other way to do it ?
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I know I asked the same question but,I can't find it and I think its deleted so thats why I did it again
I am sorry for any inconvience caused!
Could you perhaps explain what needs to be timed and why? Making input into a time puzzle isn't very user friendly, or fun, even if this is some sort of game. Some people just think or type slow.
Still you can measure the difference between some time earlier and after they input quite simply though it isn't precise:
If you just need to know the performance of your program, measuring the time yourself isn't accurate, but a profiler could help you.Code:#include <stdio.h> #include <time.h> int main (void) { double diff = 0.0; time_t start; time_t stop; char buff[128]; printf("Quick! Input!!!\n"); time(&start); if (fgets(buff, sizeof buff, stdin) != NULL) { time(&stop); diff = difftime(stop, start); printf("%s\n", buff); printf("It took you %g seconds to type that\n", diff); } return 0; }
It hasn't been deleted, it's just been pushed off the first page of threads because so many other threads have appeared in the meantime.Originally Posted by DaniiChris
If you click on your name in this thread, it brings you to this page. From there, you can click on "Find all threads started by DaniiChris" to find all the threads you've started.
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