i need to + one to gamelength during this proccess but it needs to be a statement

[knoxy5467]

class GCTask extends TimerTask {
  public void run() {
      gamelength + 1 ;  // this needs to be a statement please help
    System.gc();
  }
}



        
                
}
public class timer {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Timer timer = new Timer();
    GCTask task = new GCTask();
    timer.schedule(task, 1000, 1000);
    int counter = 1;
    while (true) {
      try {
        Thread.sleep(500);
      } catch (InterruptedException e) {
      }
    }
  }

[pbrockway2]

A statement doing what? What is the line supposed to do? (at the moment it adds one and gamelength then does nothing with the resulting sum)

[knoxy5467]

basically what it's going to do is it's going to be in a loop that starts when the on button is pushed and it gets +1 for each second that passes until the off button is pushed and this info is put live into a formula that creates an output that is desplayed in a text field

[pbrockway2]

Yes, but none of that says what the statement you wish to write is supposed to do. (Not the context of the statement, not that "it" - whatever it is - gets something, not what later happens to some "info")

Is it - the statement - supposed to assign a value to a variable, perhaps? In java you use = for that:

foo = someExpression;

[Junky]

how do i make 'variable' + 1 a statement

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