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[lieudusty]

Hi everyone! />

I'm making a program and I need it to only do os.pullEvent() for a certain amount of time (2 seconds). Is there anyway to do this considering os.pullEvent freezes the computer until an event occurs? Thanks

[Pharap]

If you do os.startTimer() beforehand, the os.pullEvent() will grab the timer event after that set time period if no events are sent before the timer event fires.

So:

local eventtocatch = 'key' --(for example)
local timeout = os.startTimer(2)
local e,arg1,arg2,arg3 = os.pullEvent()
if e=='timer' and arg1==timeout then
--time up
elseif e==eventtocatch then
--execute other code
end

[lieudusty]

Pharap, on 02 November 2012 - 04:39 PM, said:

If you do os.startTimer() beforehand, the os.pullEvent() will grab the timer event after that set time period if no events are sent before the timer event fires.

So:

local eventtocatch = 'key' --(for example)
local timeout = os.startTimer(2)
local e,arg1,arg2,arg3 = os.pullEvent()
if e=='timer' and arg1==timeout then
--time up
elseif e==eventtocatch then
--execute other code
end

Thank you very much! This was simpler than I thought ^-^

[Pharap]

You're welcome. I've recently been working quite closely with os.pullEvent so this was something I practically jumped on lol