Alarms/Wait function? (SOLVED)

[Mattias_Hedberg]

This sounds like something you could do with a repeating timer. There are plenty of threads on the forum regarding it

Here is one using Native Extensions
https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-timer-the-native-timer-extension/6581/9

Here is one using a lua module

Execute a function on a repeating timer (SOLVED)

I have seen and used the timer module provided by britzl (thanks for that btw). Is there a similar module or modification that will make it repeatable? I have a particular moment function that I would like to put on repeat about every 2-5 seconds. Thanks.

Here is one of people discussing delaying a function call with go.animate as a workaround

Delay functions?

Hi @peterH! I see two things: You renamed “delay” to “wait”, but are still calling “delay(…)” The “hide(5)” calls the function immediately and returns the result of that function (which is nil). It’s not a reference to the function. If you compare it to @britzl’s example, you see that he passes in the function references, not the return values of the functions. I’m not sure what a good way of passing extra values would be in this case. Do you have a specific use case you are tryin…

@britzl also have a couple of modules on his repo
This one in the gem bag that is ludobits
https://github.com/britzl/ludobits/blob/master/ludobits/m/timer.lua
and this one among his gists

https://gist.github.com/britzl/0f6291990b0b11f92775