Timing events in Java???

Question

Hi Guys,
im making a game and would like to time the duration of the whole game plus have another timer running so i can record how long the user takes to respond to certain actions.
Ive looked on google but all i can find is the timer package to pause a thread which is not what i need...
Thanks for your help

Answer 1

Do you have any design for your game?
My advise is:
You have 4 players, you shoulde assign one thread for each one.
For a thread you could sample the start and finish time using
System.currentTimeMillis() and two variable int star, int stop
For example when the thread starts call the method
start = System.currentTimeMillis()
and and when the player put an answer
stop= System.currentTimeMillis()
So stop-start is the wait time for the reply by player.
When you want turn a thread (for me one thread=one player) you should use a scheduling algorithm like Round Robin with a time Slice.
For example one player exsaust its time and you display the message "time is over" -> the algorithm turn to the second and so on.
I don't know if Java implements some scheduling algorithm.
Bye