Any ideas to implement time-based queue priority?

[rita-]

I wanna implement a time-based priority for the queue containing actions of my game's roles.

It is necessary for the logic running.

My idea is use time mark to sort the queue.

But I am confused, in LÖVE we could only get delta time between last 2 frames in love.update(), and then I totally can't think of a clear solution.

[zorg]

You can store accumulated dt values over multiple frames in a table, and you can sort using those values, for instance (e.g. comparing them to already known time intervals or something, i'm not 100% sure i get what you'd like to do).

[pgimeno]

You also have love.timer.getTime(), os.time() and require'socket'.gettime().

[rita-]

You can store accumulated dt values over multiple frames in a table, and you can sort using those values, for instance (e.g. comparing them to already known time intervals or something, i'm not 100% sure i get what you'd like to do).

thanks for reply!

the thing i would like to do is like a battle recorder? (actually not, maybe a byproduct
it seems like:

23:03:10 you dealt 13 magical damage to slime
23:03:33 slime granted a mana shield
23:09:20 a slime was spawned nearby
23:09:20 a slime was spawned nearby

like these lines, every *action* has a specified occurrence time.

in a frame, there are many actions that will happen, i would like to point out which happened in advance and which happened afterwards, since love.timer.step() returns an interval time.

i try to solve this by using an act function with an argument time to decide queue priority

act(actionName, time) (a member function)

but i don't know where the time is from

os.time() is totally not right, so i get stuck.

[rita-]

You can store accumulated dt values over multiple frames in a table, and you can sort using those values, for instance (e.g. comparing them to already known time intervals or something, i'm not 100% sure i get what you'd like to do).

thank you so much!! now i have worked it out