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 for wacky stuff happening? (lost reference counts or that kind of stuff)
In my specific use-case I need pause-able timers, which would either require me to implement this on top of @britzl’s defold-timer, which after quickly glancing over the code seems to save the instance properly, or modify defold-timer to suit my needs. Either way, it would have been cool to have a pure Lua solution.
UPDATE: The __dm_script_instance__ approach seems to work so I might use it temporarily, but I have no idea if it won’t break other things in subtle ways.