One, it is way easier to use System.currentTimeMillis() to keep track of time. Set the start time like this:and in the act method do this:

when I tried this it came up with an error :( this is the error: possible loss of precision found : longrequired: int any help with that would be great

@kiarocks I'm not sure how the above approach is meant to work - to start with it'll complain as pointed out because you need a long not an int there, and your if statement in the act method would only ever return true (ignoring epochs!) less than a millisecond after the variable was initialised. You could initialise a field: Then in your act method: The milliseconds since the last act method is in the msSinceLast variable - from this you should be able to work out how many act()s are roughly in a second. In terms of converting an integer to a string so you can display it, you can do this:

Nothing wrong with still learning - to a certain extent we all are! But if you're not sure of code you've written then you should really test it before you post it, otherwise you may just confuse others.

Thanks, I think that it's keeping time now, no real way to check yet, but I still can't put it on the screen yet. If anyone could advise me on that, it would be much appreciated.

could you do the same thing with longs but just String str = Long.toString(long);

Okay, ya it worked, but now there's a problem with putting it on the screen. Now when I try to do the drawString thing to make it draw the score into the world, the last score doesn't get erased and the new score overlaps it, making it a huge blob after two seconds D: Any help with making the score get erased then re-entered? I think that there's a clear() method somewhere in GreenfootImage, but I don't know how to use that... any other suggestions would be great. Also, with the current milliseconds thing, that doesn't quite work because it immediately goes up one and then stays at one instead of progressing to two and three and four, and so on.