Delay function question

[TC42]

I am making a fully mouse-controlled machine gun, and I need a delay function.
The gun is here: [scene]51274[/scene] it is still a work in progress; it doesn't work because the code that deletes the red circle triggers too quickly.
and here is the code for the bullets:

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(e)=>{
    scene.addCircle({
        pos := e.pos;
        vel := e.normal * 80;
        airfrictionmult := -1;
        heterocollide := true;
        restitution := 0;
        radius := 0.1;
        color := [0, 0, 0, 0.5];
        collideset := 65;
        drawCake := false;
        oncollide := (e)=>{
            e.this.density := 100;
            e.this.collideset := 0;
            scene.addCircle({
                pos := e.pos;
                attraction := -10;
                vel := [0, 0];
                color := [0, 0, 0, 0.25];
                radius := 1;
                density := 11;
                heterocollide := true;
                collideset := 65;
                drawCake := false;
                drawBorders := false;
                oncollide := (e)=>{
                    e.this.density := 999999999;
                    e.this.attraction := -999999999;
                    protractor := true;
                    e.this.friction := 999999999;
                    e.this.color := [1, 0, 0, 0.5];
                    e.this.collideset := 0;
                    e.this.airfrictionmult := -inf
                }
            });
            e.this.airfrictionmult := -inf
        }
    })
}

I need the delay code right after e.this.color:=[1,0,0,0.5] (line 31, I think)

[Someone Else]

Wait, so, you want the script to pause momentarily after that line?

Kind of like a sleep command in several other languages, including Java, which I know a little of?

Ohh, man, what the ____ are you attempting to code?
And what are you using as an oscillator? A laser, an alternating collider, a spinning geom, what?

Are you making another scripted cannon?

*taking another look at the code*

Ah, so it is a sleep command. Maybe,

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controllerAcc = 0;
{controllerAcc < 5} ? {controllerAcc = controllerAcc + 1} : {collideSet = 0;
airFrictionMult = -inf
}

Hmm, the fact that you are using airFrictionMult = -inf leads me to believe that you are using Phun. If I am incorrect and you are using Algodoo, you can use:

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controllerAcc = 0;
{controllerAcc < 5} ? {controllerAcc = controllerAcc + 1} : {density = 0}

Hope this helps.

[TC42]

Wait, so, you want the script to pause momentarily after that line?

Kind of like a sleep command in several other languages, including Java, which I know a little of?

Ohh, man, what the ____ are you attempting to code?
And what are you using as an oscillator? A laser, an alternating collider, a spinning geom, what?

Are you making another scripted cannon?

*taking another look at the code*

Ah, so it is a sleep command. Maybe,

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controllerAcc = 0;
{controllerAcc < 5} ? {controllerAcc = controllerAcc + 1} : {collideSet = 0;
airFrictionMult = -inf
}

Hmm, the fact that you are using airFrictionMult = -inf leads me to believe that you are using Phun. If I am incorrect and you are using Algodoo, you can use:

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controllerAcc = 0;
{controllerAcc < 5} ? {controllerAcc = controllerAcc + 1} : {density = 0}

Hope this helps.

Actually I'm using algodoo, although the scene will be phun compadible. Setting the density to zero crashes algodoo on my PC.
And yes, I'm making another scripted cannon with even more power than my last one. The cannon (which is actually a machine gun) will shoot a circle, then when the circle collides, it deletes itself after spawning another circle, which 'explodes' when it collides, and then deletes itself. It's my attempt at a scripted cannon that has no lag, and has no need for killer planes to prevent lag. In some languages, such as Processor (is that really what it's called? anyway, It's similar to what the ATmega328 microprocessing chip is coded in) there literally is a line of code

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delay(1000), or something like that

that you can add to add a delay. Yes, I know other languages other than thyme [read: I used to know javascript and HTML, and I can somewhat program an Arduino], although I don't know them nearly as well as thyme

The oscillator I'm using is just a rotating rectangle; I've found that this works far better than a gear. On a completely different note, this machine gun seems to fir forward in algodoo, and backward in Phun .

That code looks like it will work, although I don't have the time to test it (although, I do have the time to write a whole freakin' novel on the algodoo forums, somehow...) Thanks for the quick response!!

[Someone Else]

I know about two micro-liters of FORTRAN, a few milliliters of Java, and about half a liter of Thyme. And I like to use imperial units.

Anyway, in Java-Thyme the code you want is something like this:

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{
try {sleep 1000}
catch == sleepInterruptException ? {density = 0}
finally {density = 0}
}

I should mention that the code I gave you in my previous post will set the controllerAcc = 0, then increment the controllerAcc by 1 on each collision. That is, until the object collides five times, controllerAcc == 5, and the circle kills itself.

Or you could get creative with spawning lasers with 1 maxRays in a partly transparent geom. This can be used for a timer.

Oh, and I just made up Java-Thyme. The code will not work in either language.

[TC42]

Hmmm... Just tried to implement it into the scene, and it didn't work; are you sure that this

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                    controllerAcc = 0;
                    {controllerAcc < 5} ? {controllerAcc = controllerAcc + 1} : {
                        collideSet = 0;
                        airFrictionMult = -inf}


is correct?

[Someone Else]

That looks right, but I suggest testing that code on a circle without any other code.

Maybe try

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                        e.this.controllerAcc = 0;
                        {e.this.controllerAcc < 5} ? {e.this.controllerAcc = e.this.controllerAcc + 1} : {
                            e.this.collideSet = 0;
                            e.this.airFrictionMult = -inf}


this?

And you MUST touch the circle five or six times for it to disappear.

[TC42]

Already tried adding e.this.blahblahblahs; but I now know what I need to do: add another couple of those if statements inside each other so it says (in pseudo-code) IF controlleracc <5, then controlleracc++. IF controlleracc STILL less than 5, controlleracc++. IF controlleracc STILL less than 5, controlleracc++. IF controlleracc STILL less than 5............

I'm assuming that you know that variable++ means the same as variable=variable+1.

Reminds me of when I made a javascript quiz... there were one heckuvalotta if statements inside each other in that code...

[Someone Else]

TTHHAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTT......

seems WAY too complexdicatted. Having a bunch of nested IF statements seems horribly inefficient.

But, did you try to make my code work by itself?

Or did you try to make your IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF code work of its own?