Schedules

[Wheatley]

How exactly do schedules work?
I'm just now trying to use them, but I'm not sure how they work.
Could somebody give me the correct syntax?

[Ad Bot]

[MegaScientifical]

schedule(TIMEINMILLISECONDS, OBJECT (USUALLY 0 FOR NONE), COMMAND, PARAMETER1, PARAMETER2, PARAMETER3, ...);

Ex: schedule(3000, 0, serverCmdMessageSent, %client, "And 3 seconds later...");

OBJECT.schedule(TIMEINMILLISECONDS, COMMAND, PARAMETER1, PARAMETER2, PARAMETER3, ...);

Ex: %client.player.schedule(3000, addVelocity, "0 0 600");

[Amade]

You can also assign schedules to variables so that you can cancel them.
For example: %obj.deathSched = %obj.schedule(10000, kill);
And then to cancel it: cancel(%obj.deathSched);

[Nexus]

You can also assign schedules to variables so that you can cancel them.
For example: %obj.deathSched = %obj.schedule(10000, kill);
And then to cancel it: cancel(%obj.deathSched);

Thats not a variable though.  Assigning it to a variable to cancel it would be like:

$var = schedule(youknowtherest);

if(iseventpending($var))
   cancel($var);

[ZSNO]

Thats not a variable though.  Assigning it to a variable to cancel it would be like:

$var = schedule(youknowtherest);

if(iseventpending($var))
   cancel($var);

Since when was an object's variable not a variable....?

[Nexus]

Since when was an object's variable not a variable....?

The object itself is not a variable.

I kinda misread the code as %obj.schedule but it doesnt need to be an object

[Wheatley]

Oh, now I see how similar this is to the event system, etc.

Thanks.

Also, I'm guessing that to loop a schedule I just tell it to call whatever function creates the schedule?

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[Nexus]

Oh, now I see how similar this is to the event system, etc.

Thanks.

Also, I'm guessing that to loop a schedule I just tell it to call whatever function creates the schedule?

Yes, or you can be weird and do

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schedule(1000, 0, eval, "schedule(1000, 0, eval, \"schedule(1000, 0, eval, \\\"schedule(1000, 0, eval, \\\\\"echo(\"lol what was the point of this?\\\\\");\\\");\");");

Lol, I probably made a mistake in there, but whatever.

[Bloxxed]

With schedules, I love making client sided scripts. You could copy and paste lyrics for a song, then do in console

stillalive();
then it brings out stillalive lyrics.

so.

function stillalive();
{
etcetc
}

What I did, was I made keybinds to certain stuff, so like

function br()
{
commandtoserver('messagesent',"Brb, I have to go do something.");
}

I keybinded a letter to br(); and I could press that, and I can easily go brb/afk.

[Nexus]

With schedules, I love making client sided scripts. You could copy and paste lyrics for a song, then do in console

stillalive();
then it brings out stillalive lyrics.

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%delay = 3000;
commandtoserver('messagesent', "Well here we are again.");
schedule(%delay, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"It's always such a pleasure.\");");
schedule(%delay*2, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"Remember when you tried to kill me twice?\");");
schedule(%delay*4, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"And then we laughed and laughed.\");");
schedule(%delay*5, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"Except I wasn't laughing.\");");
schedule(%delay*6, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"Given the circumstances, I've been shockingly nice.\");");
schedule(%delay*8, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"You want your freedom?  Take it.\");");
schedule(%delay*9, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"That's what I'm counting on.\");");
schedule(%delay*10, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"I used to want you dead\");");
schedule(%delay*11, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"But now I only want you gone.\");");

schedule(%delay*13, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"She was a lot like you.\");");
schedule(%delay*14, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"(Maybe not quite so heavy.)\");");
schedule(%delay*15, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"Now little Caroline is in here too.\");");
schedule(%delay*17, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"One day they woke me up.\");");
schedule(%delay*18, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"So I could live forever.\");");
schedule(%delay*19, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"It's such a shame the same will never happen to you.\");");
schedule(%delay*21, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"You've got your short, sad life left..\");");
schedule(%delay*22, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"That's what I'm counting on.\");");
schedule(%delay*23, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"I'll let you get right to it.\");");
schedule(%delay*24, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"Now I only want you gone.\");");

schedule(%delay*26, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"Goodbye my only friend.\");");
schedule(%delay*27, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"Oh, did you think I meant you?\");");
schedule(%delay*28, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"That would be funny, if it weren't so sad.\");");
schedule(%delay*30, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"Well, you have been replaced.\");");
schedule(%delay*31, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"I don't need anyone now.\");");
schedule(%delay*32, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"When I delete you maybe I'll stop feeling so bad.\");");
schedule(%delay*34, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"Go make some new disaster.\");");
schedule(%delay*35, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"That's what I'm counting on.\");");
schedule(%delay*36, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"You're someone else's problem\");");
schedule(%delay*37, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"Now I only want you gone.\");");
schedule(%delay*38, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"Now I only want you gone...\");");
schedule(%delay*39, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"Now I only want you...\");");
schedule(%delay*40, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"gone.\");");


mmm yes

[Bloxxed]

<3!

[Chrono]

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%delay = 3000;
commandtoserver('messagesent', "Well here we are again.");
schedule(%delay, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"It's always such a pleasure.\");");
schedule(%delay*2, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"Remember when you tried to kill me twice?\");");
schedule(%delay*4, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"And then we laughed and laughed.\");");
schedule(%delay*5, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"Except I wasn't laughing.\");");
schedule(%delay*6, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"Given the circumstances, I've been shockingly nice.\");");
schedule(%delay*8, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"You want your freedom?  Take it.\");");
schedule(%delay*9, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"That's what I'm counting on.\");");
schedule(%delay*10, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"I used to want you dead\");");
schedule(%delay*11, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"But now I only want you gone.\");");

schedule(%delay*13, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"She was a lot like you.\");");
schedule(%delay*14, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"(Maybe not quite so heavy.)\");");
schedule(%delay*15, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"Now little Caroline is in here too.\");");
schedule(%delay*17, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"One day they woke me up.\");");
schedule(%delay*18, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"So I could live forever.\");");
schedule(%delay*19, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"It's such a shame the same will never happen to you.\");");
schedule(%delay*21, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"You've got your short, sad life left..\");");
schedule(%delay*22, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"That's what I'm counting on.\");");
schedule(%delay*23, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"I'll let you get right to it.\");");
schedule(%delay*24, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"Now I only want you gone.\");");

schedule(%delay*26, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"Goodbye my only friend.\");");
schedule(%delay*27, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"Oh, did you think I meant you?\");");
schedule(%delay*28, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"That would be funny, if it weren't so sad.\");");
schedule(%delay*30, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"Well, you have been replaced.\");");
schedule(%delay*31, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"I don't need anyone now.\");");
schedule(%delay*32, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"When I delete you maybe I'll stop feeling so bad.\");");
schedule(%delay*34, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"Go make some new disaster.\");");
schedule(%delay*35, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"That's what I'm counting on.\");");
schedule(%delay*36, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"You're someone else's problem\");");
schedule(%delay*37, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"Now I only want you gone.\");");
schedule(%delay*38, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"Now I only want you gone...\");");
schedule(%delay*39, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"Now I only want you...\");");
schedule(%delay*40, 0, eval, "commandtoserver('messagesent', \"gone.\");");


mmm yes

Or you can do
... , 0, commandToServer, 'messagesent', "bla bla bla");

[Nexus]

Or you can do
... , 0, commandToServer, 'messagesent', "bla bla bla");

I have always had miserable luck with doing that, so I just do it the other way..

[Wheatley]

Say I wanted to make a weapon to have a delay of whatever, and then do a special thing.

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function WeaponImage::onFire(%this,%obj,%slot)
{

%obj.chargeSched = %obj.schedule(5000, WeaponCharged, %this, %obj, %slot);
%obj.ChargingWeapon = 1;
%obj.playThread(2, armAttack);
}

function WeaponCharged(%this,%obj,%slot)
{
%obj.setDamageLevel(0);
serverPlay3D(WeaponChargedFireSound, %obj.getPosition());
%obj.ChargingWeapon = 0;
serverCmdUnUseTool(%obj.client);
}
How would I do that? Because this isn't working.