4 replies to this topic

[lieudusty]

Hi everyone! =D

This is probably a noob question but how do I make a program run for a certain amount of time then stop? Thanks.

[Cranium]

It depends on the program running. Some cases you can just have it sleep for a certain amount of time, and os.shutdown(), other times you would need to use some timers and os.pullEvent()... What kind of program are you running? Could you post the code?

[lieudusty]

Well I wanted to continuously print something for lets say 10 seconds then stop.

[ardera]

Code:

function a()
  shell.run("theprogram")
end
function b()
  sleep(10)
end
parallel.waitForAny(a, :(/>/>

(This is a program to run the program "theprogram" for 10 secs)

[Cranium]

ardera, on 17 August 2012 - 03:34 PM, said:

Code:

function a()
  shell.run("theprogram")
end
function b()
  sleep(10)
end
parallel.waitForAny(a, :(/>/> --your code here called for "B", and we needed "b"

(This is a program to run the program "theprogram" for 10 secs)

Slight correction.