Delete Sprite based on Timer?

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Nathan38

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Posted: 2nd Jul 2016 10:06

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Hi all,
Can anyone tell me what's going on here? I've never used timers before so I think that's the issue? Basically the sprite shows properly and all that but it doesn't go away after 2 seconds.

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if myPlayerLevel == 1 then
	StartTimer(e)
	--SetSpriteSize 		( privateSprite , 6 , 9 )
	SetSpritePosition 		( privateSprite , 50 , 50 )	
	if GetTimer(e) > 2000 then
	SetSpritePosition 		( privateSprite , 200 , 200 )	
	--DeleteSprite (privateSprite)
	--DeleteImage (privateIcon)
	end
	end

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Posted: 2nd Jul 2016 10:09

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Start timer also acts like reset timer (if there was such a command) so the gettimer in this script is always going to be 0.
You need to call starttimer only once when needed

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Posted: 2nd Jul 2016 10:50

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Hi smallg,
Thanks for getting back to me. So does that mean that I should do "if StartTimer > 2000 then"? Sorry I'm not firing on all cylinders this morning

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Posted: 2nd Jul 2016 12:46

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No you should prevent the function StartTimer(e) to start again, so it should look more like this

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--outside of the functions
local timerstarted

--inside the functions
if myPlayerLevel == 1 then
	if timerstarted == 0 then
		StartTimer(e)
		timerstarted = 1
	end
    --SetSpriteSize         ( privateSprite , 6 , 9 )
    SetSpritePosition       ( privateSprite , 50 , 50 ) 
    if GetTimer(e) > 2000 then
    SetSpritePosition       ( privateSprite , 200 , 200 )   
    --DeleteSprite (privateSprite)
    --DeleteImage (privateIcon)
	end
end

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Posted: 3rd Jul 2016 08:37 Edited at: 3rd Jul 2016 08:48

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Hi Corno_1,
That works perfectly, however what should I do if I want to do that for multiple sprites? for example if the players level has gone up to 2 instead, should I set the timerstarted to 0 in line 13 of the snippet posted?

EDIT:
Nevermind, I think I sorted it.

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