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Alepale
Alepale

Reputation: 29

Pygame wait specific amount of time until something happens

I'm creating a game and at the "start" screen I want it to pop up a picture after 45 seconds of not starting the game saying "Are you not going to play?"

However, I am completely lost at what to do, so if anyone have any clue on how to help that would be really appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 526

Answers (2)

marienbad
marienbad

Reputation: 1453

You can set a timer and an event on the event queue. This answer shows how to do that. How can I detect if the user has double-clicked in pygame?

Upvotes: 0

Demandooda
Demandooda

Reputation: 122

You probably have a timer for your game, like this:

pygame.time.Clock.tick(fps)

Each time your main loop runs, it ticks your fps, so your game could run smoothly.

Now, just add a variable, called, say, tick_counter

Now, in your code, do something like this:

fps = 25
tick_counter = 0  

while RUNNING:
    #Do stuff, check for if close window, etc

    pygame.time.Clock.tick(fps)
    tick_counter += 1

    if tick_counter >= 1125: #45 seconds if you are doing 25 fps. If your fps is different, just calculate it: 45 seconds = 45*fps

        #Pop up the picture!

Upvotes: 1

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