Showing timer function inside GUI

Hey y'all.

My problem I'm running into is how to show a timer inside my GUI. Currently I am creating a game for class and the game stops after 60 seconds. I am displaying the score using the title() function, but can't find a way to show the time every time I update the graphics. Any Solutions would be great!

P.S. If you have a better way of showing the time and score please be sure to share.

Below is a snipet of my code:

   % Timer Function
      t = timer('TimerFcn', 'stat=false; disp(''Game Over'')','StartDelay',60);
      start(t)
      stat=true;

      % Later when I update the graphics
      time = floor(t);
      title([{'Time: ',num2str(time);'Score: ',num2str(Score)}]);

Answer 1

[Geoff Hayes]

Austin - what time are you trying to show? The current time or the elapsed time? In the above code,

 t = timer(...

t should be the timer object, so trying to call floor on this object should fail with the error

 Undefined function 'floor' for input arguments of type 'timer'.

If you want to show the elapsed time since the start of the game (or start of the timer), then you could use the now function. Suppose you call now as soon as you start the timer

 start(t);
 gameStartTime = now;

When you are ready to display the elapsed time, then get the current time and compare it with the start time

 currentTime = now;
 elapsedTimeSec = floor((currentTime - gameStartTime)*86400);
 title([{'Time: ',num2str(elapsedTimeSec);'Score: ',num2str(Score)}]);

Since now returns a serial date number which represents the whole and fractional number of days from a fixed, preset date, then to convert it to seconds, we multiply by 86400 (=24 hours * 60 minutes * 60 seconds).