Simple Counter

[azural]

What I wish to do is use a spell for example and have a countdown started, and set a variable to FALSE. After the pre set time, that i set in script, runs out (say 60 seconds) the variable is then set to TRUE. All the while I wish the script to still be running. The Sleep function is no good as it cause the script to pause. It's been so long since I have programmed this is seeming difficult for me to so.

Any help?

BTW man I would love to try that fishing assister, most colorful thing I have ever saw, seems I got pointed to this site a few weeks too late. And the other ones out there are so Blah and no nice GUI


EDIT:
Nvr mind read some calls i could do in language and was easy as pie~

[X-Drop]

Post your results when you finally get it all working. Btw, good job finding your own answer.

[deathravin]

uh.. k... not too tough. There's a pretty detailed post about something just like this. Its a script called 6 timer script:
tinyterror.proboards37.com/index.cgi?board=lunarscripts&action=display&thread=1132092160
Sneak=False
SneakTime = os.clock() + 6

if SneakTime == os.clock() then
Sneak=True
SneakTime = 0

put that in your pipe and smoke it for a while.

[sdphantom]

deathravin said:

uh.. k... not too tough. There's a pretty detailed post about something just like this. Its a script called 6 timer script:
tinyterror.proboards37.com/index.cgi?board=lunarscripts&action=display&thread=1132092160

Sneak=False
SneakTime = os.clock() + 6

if SneakTime == os.clock() then
Sneak=True
SneakTime = 0
end

put that in your pipe and smoke it for a while.

In your time check, there's a bug in which if the script hung up for a second or more and skipped the one second that would trigger whatever code relied on this, that code would never run.

To fix this, change if SneakTime == os.clock() then to if SneakTime <= os.clock() then

<Edit: Fixed previous edit (had the code right the first time >.<; )>

[azural]

This is what i ended up doing it simple form, for sure there are many ways
as soon as i saw the os.difftime( ) , I realized I could compare it , then just reset the
SneakTime to new os.time( ) after action was preformed

SneakTime = os.time( )
SneakRecast = 240

--perform what ever

--check if time "X" has gone by
if (os.difftime(os.time( ),SneakTime)) > Recast then

[TinyTerror]

Yeah, these are all fairly standard time counter methods. Good to see people learning.