Creating a frame timer

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I am trying to create a timer that makes an ellipse disappear 2 seconds or 120 frames after the mouse has been pressed, the ellipse and text appear whenever i press my mouse, but they disappear far too fast about 1 frame after so i was wondering how i would make it so that they stay on the screen for 120 frames with my if and else if statements. also another question is how would i create a counter for how many times my mouse has been clicked on the screen before i click on the object i am trying to find?

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int counter; before setup

Then just say counter ++;

Timer

Now with the timer:

just say int timer; before setup

In setup timer=millis();

Then say in draw()

if(millis () - timer > 2000) {
    timer=millis();
    showText=false;
}

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show text

showText Would be a boolean variable

When the mouse is pressed: showText=true;

also in draw()

if(showText)
    text("test",111,111);

This would show the text for 2 seconds

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i am trying to make a hot and cold game and have the circles that say if I’m cold or not appear when i click and i have all of that completed, but i want them to disappear 2 seconds or 120 frames after i have clicked every time and have a counter for how many times i have clicked. i was wondering if i could get any help as i am completely stumped and cannot figure it out. the circles will disappear from around my mouse in 1 frame by the looks of it but I want them to last for 120 frames. I also apologize in advance for how horrible my code is and how badly formatted it is as I am very new to coding

final int ballDiam = 30; //diam of the randomly occuring invisible ball
float posX; //decloration of the X position of the random ball 
float posY; //decloration of the Y position of the random ball
final int coldDetector = 400; //diam of the cold circle
final int warmDetector = 250; //diam of the warm circle
final int hotDetector = 100; //diam of the hot circle
final int hotColor = color(255,0,0); //color of the hot circle
final int warmColor = color(255,100,0); //color of the warm circle
final int coldColor = color(0,0,255); //color of the cold circle 

float textWidth = width/2;
float textAscent = 10;
float textDescent =2 ;
boolean mouseClicked = false;
int timer;
int counter;


//setup 
void setup()
{
 size(500,500); //size of the program
 posX = random(width); //properties of the random X location
  posY = random(height); //properties of the random Y location
  timer = millis();
  
}
//drawn fumctions
void draw()
{
  
  background(200); //background color
 //add stroke (stroke(200); when progrm is finished
  fill(200); 
  {
    stroke(0);
  ellipse(posX,posY,ballDiam,ballDiam); //random invisible ball meant to be found
  //hot circle
  }
}
  
  
  
  void mouseClicked() {
  
  if  (dist(mouseX,mouseY,posX,posY)>300 )
  {
  String F = "You're freezing!";
    textAlign(255,255);
    textSize(15);
    fill(0,30,255);
    text(F,255,255);
  }
  else if (dist(mouseX,mouseY,posX,posY)>200)
  {
  noFill();
  stroke(coldColor);
  ellipse(mouseX,mouseY,coldDetector,coldDetector);
  }
    else if (dist(mouseX,mouseY,posX,posY)>125)
    {
      noFill();
      stroke(warmColor);
      

stroke(warmColor);
      ellipse(mouseX,mouseY,warmDetector,warmDetector);
  }
    else if (dist(mouseX,mouseY,posX,posY)>50) //initial if statement for the hot circle around the mouse 
  {
  noFill();
    stroke(hotColor);
    ellipse(mouseX,mouseY,hotDetector,hotDetector);
    
  }     
  }
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??

Didn’t you like my reply?

So why start a new thread…?

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Just implement what I told you

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I did try, but I couldn’t get it to work so I made something with the code I currently have in case that makes things any easier I don’t know how this site works very well

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At the beginning of mousePressed

set the boolean true

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Then where you use text say if(showText) before it

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Then use the timer to control your boolean showText

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thank you!

but what do i do about the circle around my curser to make them stay as well

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Oh I see what you mean

Apologies

So, best when you set a boolean showCircle in mousePressed to true

In draw act accordingly and say

if(showCircle) {
// show Circle 
}

After timer has passed set showCircle to false

So you want to do the drawing in draw() when prompted by the boolean that has been set to true in mousePressed().

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ooohhh that makes sense

i should have worded my question better

thank you, yeah I’m trying to get it so i have text on screen and the circle around my mouse when clicked for 2 seconds

thank you for the help

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Remember to hit ctrl-t in processing to get nice auto format prior to posting

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Maybe you can post your result here in a nice way