Why are you using timers? That seems needlessly complicated. Use a game loop that keeps a constant frame rate. Maintain state in your sprite objects, use the game loop to update this state. Then on a separate draw loop draw the sprite according to its state.
Then you dont have to worry about weird sync issues. On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 5:45 AM, John Goche <johngoch...@googlemail.com>wrote: > > Hello, > > I have an android game which uses timers to update the screen sprites. > When the user wishes to pause the screen I have to know which timers > are pending and how long is missing before their expiration time. So this > means I have to maintain separate data structures for each Handler to > keep track of: > > A. when the timer is set (timerSetTime) with System.nanoTime() and > B. how long before it expires (timerExpirationLength) so that > > when the user pauses the game screen I cancel all timers > and then when the user unpauses for each paused timer I compute > > unpauseTime = System.nanoTime() > > and then reset each timer to timerExpirationLength - unpauseTime + > timerSetTime > > and then when each timer expires unload the corresponding (timerSetTime > and timerExpirationLength) > data structure entry in the Handler subclass. > > OK, I have described my solution to the problem. The android Handler > system does not seem > to provide a custom solution to this problem so I had to implement my own > code. If anyone has > a better solution to the problem of dealing with game state timers when > the game is paused (so > that they are saved as part of the game state) I'd like to hear your > alternative solutions. > > Thanks, > > John Goche > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- ~ Jeremiah:9:23-24 Android 2D MMORPG: http://solrpg.com/, http://www.youtube.com/user/revoltingx -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
