New to Methods -- need help with a counting program

[ajfonty]

Hi all,

I'm making a class that functions as a counting-based internal clock that can be referenced by other classes.

So far, I have several methods in the clock class. My question pertains to only a few of them, which I've included below.

public class WorldTime
{
    private int timevalue;
    public Boolean startclock;
    
    public void runinternalClock()
    {
        timevalue++;
        
        try 
        {
            Thread.sleep(1000);
        }
            
        catch (InterruptedException e) // dummy value so far.
        {
                
        }
            
        if (timevalue == 2400)
        {
            resetTime();
        }
    }
            
    public void motorClock()
    {
        while (runTime(true))
        {
            runinternalClock();
        }
    }
    
    public int getTime()
    {
        return timevalue;
    }
        
    public void resetTime()
    {
        timevalue = 0;
    }
    
    public Boolean runTime(Boolean begin)
    {
        if (begin)
        {
            return true;
        }
        else
        {
            return false;
        }
    }
}

I've written a test class to see if the internal clock works.

public class TimeTest 
{
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        System.out.println("Enter a value");
        Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
        int x = scan.nextInt();
        
        if (x > 0)
        {
            try 
            {
                Thread.sleep(5000);
            }
            
            catch (InterruptedException timevalue) // necessary.
            {                
            }
            
            System.out.println("The game's time is: " + openUp());
        }
    }
    
    public static int openUp()
    {
        TestRun tout = new TestRun();
        return tout.testRun();
    }
}

class TestRun extends TimeTest
{
    WorldTime be = new WorldTime();
    public int testRun()
    {
        be.runTime(true);
        return be.getTime();
    }
}

However, I've received mixed results in my programming. Sometimes, the while loop fires only once, resulting in a timevalue = 1; other times, the output is 0, meaning the loop hasn't fired at all.

Can anyone provide any advice for me?

Thanks in advance!

[ajfonty]

oops, double post.

[Norm]

Can anyone provide any advice for me?

Try debugging the code by Adding some println statements to see what it is doing and where the execution flow is going.