Thread: same code, different result?!

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    same code, different result?!

    ok, these are the two sets of code:

    Code:
    if(7500 - (GetTickCount() - timeCreated) <= 0)
         return false;
    else
         return true;
    Code:
    int x = GetTickCount();
    x -= timeCreated;
    
    if(7500 - (x) <= 0)
         return false;
    else
         return true;
    I'm using it as a sort of timer for when to make rockets disappear - each gets called like this, inside of a loop. If it returns false, the rocket disappears ("rockets" is a std::vector):

    Code:
    for(int i = 0; i < rockets.size(); ++i)
    {
    if(!rockets[ i]->move())
         (...);
    }
    The only problem is, with the first set of code, only one rocket disappears after the designated 7.5 seconds; the rest keep going - but with the second set, they do all disappear after 7.5 seconds! Does anybody know why?
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    >if(7500 - (GetTickCount() - timeCreated) <= 0)

    GetTickCount() returns a DWORD, which I think is an unsigned long value. So the result of the subtraction is unsigned, so the result is alway > 0.

    Try either:
    if ((long) 7500 - (long)(GetTickCount() - timeCreated) <= 0)

    Or:
    if (GetTickCount() - timeCreated >= 7500)

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    Also, timeCreated should be declared as:

    DWORD timeCreated;

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    Ok, thanks!
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