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Sleep() Function for TorqueScript

by Crimson Rum Khulay Gin · in Technical Issues · 10/16/2007 (1:52 am) · 5 replies

Is there an equivalent of this in TorqueScript?

I found this great barebones tutorial Sir Charles Patterson and I just want to practice it by doing the traditional looping and spiraling stars we used to do in Turbo C. However, I need to insert some sort of delay(timeunit); function in the loop in order to achieve the animated effect.

Can't seem to find any of it in the free TorqueScript documentation I found. Thanks a lot in advance everyone. :)
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Torque Owner Ehab Yosry Amer
#1
10/16/2007 (1:42 pm)
There is a schedule function, it will work the same for u.
schedule the function u want to be executed after the time u need in milliseconds.
schedule doesn't work like recursions, meaning that the function calls will not be on top in the stack.
example if u schedule a function after 0 milliseconds it will execute after the function that has scheduled it is finished (just thought to mention that in case u were interested to know :D )

in short schedule will do what u need :D
%eventID = schedule( timeInMS, ObjID || 0, FunctionName, arg0. .... , argN );
[b][i]OR[/b][/i]
%eventID = ObjID.schedule( timeInMS , FunctionName, arg0. .... , argN );

arg0 to argN are the parameters of the function if any

Crimson Rum Khulay Gin
#2
10/16/2007 (6:12 pm)
Is there a way to determine if the scheduleded function has already been executed? Something like:

%eventID = schedule( timeInMS, ObjID || 0, FunctionName, arg0. .... , argN );

checkIfDone(%eventID);

Torque 3D Owner Stephen Zepp
#3
10/16/2007 (6:15 pm)
If %eventID is <= 0, then the event has already occurred. If it is a positive number, it's still pending.

or, in codespeak:

if (%eventID > 0)
{
  // event is still pending
}
else
{
  // event has happened, and been deleted (as an event)
}

Torque Owner Ehab Yosry Amer
#4
10/16/2007 (11:24 pm)
There is also isEventPending( eventID );

Crimson Rum Khulay Gin
#5
10/17/2007 (5:05 pm)
@Stephen: I guess this would suffice. All I need is something that would halt the main game cycle temporarily in order to let events in.

@Ehab: Yeah, this is what I'll be needing to check if the event has been executed already.

@everyone: Thanks as always :)