A dt based timer for callbacks

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Is there way to call a function in the context of a specific game object?

Nope. Not officially (unless you use native extensions). There is a hack to do it, though. There is this global variable named __dm_script_instance__ which you can save when registering the callback and then temporarily set while calling it.

See discussion here:

Run function in context of another script

Hi! So, I have a timer module in my project. The problem I’m facing is the fact that the timer callback gets called in the context of the script instance that called the timer’s update() function, not in the context of the script instance that registered the timer. I think on the native side, you can do dmScript::getInstance() and dmScript::setInstance(). Would setting __dm_script_instance__ on the global object from the Lua side, then setting it back have the same effect or is there potential…