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Pkeod · April 22, 2016, 10:10am

Delayed function calls on a timer. A proper way to do this is in Defold backlog. It’s been suggested until then to use go.animate. This module by @britzl is better.

gist.github.com

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

timer.lua

--- Module that can be used to get a callback when a certain amount of time has elapsed
--
-- @usage
-- local timer = require "timer"
-- function init(self)
-- 		self.t1 = timer.seconds(2, function()
--			print("2 seconds have elapsed")
--		end)
-- 		self.t2 = timer.seconds(5, function()
--			print("5 seconds have elapsed")

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local timer = require ("main.timer")

function hej()
	print("hej!")
end

function init(self)
	timer.seconds(3, hej)
end


function update(self, dt)
	timer.update(dt)
end