I'd like to be able to execute lua code with certain time delay (without having
to re-trigger something and also be able to do that in a while loop ( for
example while x is true, let certain message appear every 40 seconds until x is
false).

On 02/03/2013 06:04 PM, Matthias Krüger - Roundup wrote:
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> New submission from Matthias Krüger <matthias.krueger@famsik.de>:
>
> I'd like to be able to execute lua code with certain time delay (without having
> to re-trigger something and also be able to do that in a while loop ( for
> example while x is true, let certain message appear every 40 seconds until x is
> false).
>

In what kind of scripts will you use it ?
With triggered events ?

Uhmm, I'm not sure what kind of use case I had in mind then...
But for example by having something like
set_bot_destination("foo")
wait(sometime)
set_bot_destination("bar")
wait(sometime)
set_bot_destination("qux")

we could imitate complexe pathgfinding or simuare one npc "visiting" another one
and then walking back to the original waypoint (whereas this very example would
be easier to do with some  has_npc_reached_label?(bla) function)

I don't think your example are related to lua code. We need a way to trigger thing 
when bot enter a area (and leave). As I've mentioned on irc, we have two solution, 
extends the label trigger to be used with bot or make a new waypoint trigger.

*to lua code executed continuesly

Mmh ok.
Waypoint triggers could be used to work around things a bit but it won't offer
the same diversity of new options that something like a sleep option would have imo,

If I understand this request correctly, you want something like a
"lua_animation.lua" script, that would run continuously (aka, once every tenth
of  as second), and probably would be used for things on some sort of cyclical
cycle.

The idea would be you'd break things down by frequency.  An example to change a
bot's move target every 60 seconds:

jack_move_targets = {"Jack1", "Jack2", "Jack3", "Jack4"}
if (every_seconds(60)) then  --things that happen once a minute
  set_bot_destination("Jack", jack_move_target[jack_number])
  jack_number = jack_number + 1;
  if (table.getn(jack_move_targets) < jack_number) then
      jack_number = 0;
  end
end

-- This would require a lua function "every_seconds()", which would return true
once every x seconds.

This would be straightforward to add to what is currently called
"run_time_delay_events()"  Might be more difficult to troubleshoot though. :-)

every_seconds() would store game_time() when first called and:
old_game_time=game_time()
while TRUE {
  if game_time() >= old_game_time + time_to_delay
}

Although we would not used a while?

Pushed a very slightly modified version from /r/2346 (authored by Xenux) in
commit 1ae5bcc4a40d83966c6d0d31160ab86f8db009ea

Also fixes priority - it's not "minor", it's a feature request! ;-)