Timer

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Wiki description

Repeats the code in the timer(). Result of the llSetTimerEvent library function call.

Caveats

The time between timer events can be longer than that specified with llSetTimerEvent, this is caused by:
- Time dilation - See llGetRegionTimeDilation for more information;
- Default event delay - Only so many events can be triggered per second;
- Event Execution - If the execution of an event takes too long;
- llSleep().
Only one timer can be active at one time.
The timer survives state changes, but does not survive resets.

Examples

float gap = 2.0;
float counter = 0.0;

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        // Activate the timer listener every 2 seconds
        llSetTimerEvent(gap);
    }

    timer()
    {
        counter = counter + gap; 
        llSay(0, (string)counter+" seconds have passed");
    }
}

See also: functions

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