Timer In AS3 And C++
Hi there,
I'm writing a multiplayer AS3 game, running atop a C++ server.
The problem is trying to get the two to syncronize nicely; I'm using clock_gettime() (on Linux with C++) which returns secs and nsecs - but the nsecs aren't particularly reliable in that they overflow every few seconds back to zero, so you can't just append the usecs to the secs to get a consistent 'timestamp'.
My question is does anybody know of a way to keep a reliable timer running on both the C++ server and AS3 client? It does not need to be an actual Unix Timestamp, and so can begin at Zero when the server begins (And it'll tell clients whereabouts it is) and accuracy needs to be to about a hundredth of a second - so not terribly taxing - any thoughts would be appreciated!
Cheers
Mark
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Posted on: 04-19-2008, 03:42 PM
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var snd:Sound;// Sound Object
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