How to stop timer tick

Question

In my code, I have a timer called timer. I started it somewhere in the game by doing timer.tick(). I was wondering if there is any kind of command that can stop the timer from recording time anymore and just stop. Because if I just set it to zero it keeps going, which I have tried. Is there a command like timer.stop(). I have tried many things such as looking online for this, and settings it to zero, etc..

Thank you EDIT_______________________

This is the variables before main loop

clock = pygame.time.Clock() FPS = 60 timer = pygame.time.Clock() storydelay = 5000 time_count = 0

After main loop

if story: timer.tick() time_count += timer.get_time() if time_count < storydelay: mainmenu = False screen.blit(black_image,zero_position) if time_count > storydelay: mainmenu = True

Basically what I want to do is when the time_count > storydelay, the timer should stop, so I can recall it back some other time

So just set the timer = 0, and time_count = 0 after your last if statement. — l'L'l
– l'L'l, Commented May 30, 2016 at 23:07
Just in case you didn't see my comment below, you don't need the second pygame.time.Clock just use the clock instead of timer (but don't call clock.tick(FPS) twice). — skrx
– skrx, Commented Jun 2, 2016 at 19:51

DCA- · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-31 08:49:43Z

Because timer.get_time() returns the time from the last call to timer.tick(), all you have to do is set the timer_count back to 0 and call timer.tick() to reset everything.

Here is an example:

import pygame clock = pygame.time.Clock() FPS = 60 timer = pygame.time.Clock() storydelay = 5000 time_count = 0 story = True timer.tick() while story: time_count += timer.tick() if time_count < storydelay: pass if time_count > storydelay: time_count = 0 print "story done" story = False clock.tick(FPS) main_menu = True timer.tick() while main_menu: time_count += timer.tick() if time_count > 3000: time_count = 0 print "menu done" main_menu = False clock.tick(FPS) print "done"

As you can see, before each loop if started; timer.tick() is called and when each loop is closed time_count is reset

Hope this helps.

True, I was debating whether to remove it or keep it in because it follows the OP's code a little more closely
Yeah, that comment was actually more directed @abc1234. Do OPs get notified about comments to answers?

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