How can I reset the clock in this (C++) timer function?

I don’t know C++ very well but “bool reset = false;” sounds like it shouldn’t be included

This is going to be a stupid question/answer for you, but – why can’t you test for the condition where you want the time to equal zero, and then set the time equal to zero at that point, I would guess right before “return false;”? (Obviously, I don’t know C++ either.)(It might not help directly, but sometimes even stupid ideas can generate good ones.)

This is a class, so he’s probably got this in a header file, separate from the main code. I can’t help you though, I’m not too good at using/understanding someone else’s code.

The elapsed() function compares its argument with the difference between the current time (std::clock()) and the counter variable. What you need is a function to reset the counter variable to the current time:

void reset() { counter = std::clock(); }

Except that you already have such a function: call elapsed(0). Since the difference must be at least zero, it will set the counter variable (“counter = tick”).

Here’s some documentation for the ctime library:

http://cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/ctime/