Help with Delays

dravidiankayne · Post by **dravidiankayne** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 2:00 pm

Okay, I have made many macros and I feel I'm getting good at it, but I want to know a little about delays. I know the /delay command pauses the macro for the given amount of time, but what if I don't want the macro paused, but I want something to trigger after 'n' seconds? So for instance, if you want your character to say something, then 5 seconds later you want them to say something again, while the macro is continuing to loop.......how do you do that? I know I could use timers, but then the action still only triggers once per loop, and if the macro gets tied up doing something else, that event won't trigger till the next time the loop comes around, even if it is at 0.

Thanks~

wassup · Post by **wassup** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 2:39 pm

/timed <deciseconds> <command>
Executes a command after a specified duration (in deciseconds like pause)
Note: This does NOT "pause" successive commands.

dravidiankayne · Post by **dravidiankayne** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 9:17 pm

Thank you SOOO Much!!! This just enhanced my macros ten-fold!!

dravidiankayne · Post by **dravidiankayne** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 9:20 pm

So can I do something like:

/timed 30 {
/DO SOMETHING
}

And this makes it so ~after~ 3 seconds DO SOMETHING is performed? Or can I not use the { } things?

Lax · Post by **Lax** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 9:23 pm

no {} except for ifs sorry

do this:

/timed 30 /multiline ; /command 1;/command 2;/command 3;/command 4;/command 5 etc

magictiger · Post by **magictiger** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 10:24 pm

Can we call a sub from a timer?
/timed 660 /call castretardedshortdurationbuff

The reason I'm asking is that I'd like to make a macro to take 6 or 7 names and cycle through them casting this buff once every 66 seconds. I could probably do it with /multiline but I feel more comfortable working in code blocks.