Getting the time ( seconds ) that an object is active..

Question

Hi,
I'm making a very basic game in java,
and I would like to know how long someone is active in my game..
so I will need some kind of counter thats starts counting when
when someone starts the game, this is what I have:
but for some kind of reason my gameTime is always 0...
What's wrong with my code:
class Application:
Game activeGame;
Timer timer;
TimerTask playTime;
timer = new Timer();
activeGame = new Game( id, name, .. )
playTime = new TimerTask() {
public void run()
activeGame.setGameTime();
System.println( Long.toString( activeGame.getGameTime()) );
timer.schedule( playTime, 0, 1000 );
Class Game:
private long gameTime;
public long getGame() { return this.gameTime; }
public void setGameTime() { this.gameTime += this.gameTime; }
Thanks in advance.
dBaser

Answer 1

in the following code:
private long gameTime;
public long getGame() { return this.gameTime; }
public void setGameTime() { this.gameTime +=
this.gameTime; }
..Where would gameTime ever be non zero? Maybe I am
missing something in your thread business in the other
class, but just looking at this I can't see where you
would get a non-zero value out of it.err .. owk damned :s
mad big fool of myself here :)
forgot to set default value to one :$
sorry guys .. ;)