[JASS] How to avoid waits

[Sephalo]

Hmm this was something I wondered when I was making a littlebit JASS on my own.

I got a system that checks something every 0.50 seconds and does an action if a boolean is true. The only important info here is the 0.50 second interval.

Currently I got something like this:

Loop
exitwhen i > 5
if boolean == true then
blabla
set i = 6
else
set i = i + 1
call wait(0.50)
endloop

This is basically what I have atm, but the problem is that the waits aren't really secure, sometimes I can just see it in my map that it skips a 0.50 interval. Could someone tell me how to avoid waits? I once heard something about countdown timers but I'm not really sure about it.

Thanks.

 

[PurplePoot]

call TimerStart(someTimer,0.50,true,someFunction)

Look up Rising_Dusk's "Timers: The Tricks and the Traps" (or whatever it's called) on wc3campaigns.

 

[Titanhex]

While probably not as efficient as Rising_Disk's "Timers:etc" as he's quiet skilled at JASS, I can direct you to a recent thread I made asking this same question and which recieved a very helpful answer.

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/triggers-scripts-269/changing-waits-timers-spells-155740/

 

[Adiktuz]

call TimerStart(someTimer,0.50,true,someFunction)

Look up Rising_Dusk's "Timers: The Tricks and the Traps" (or whatever it's called) on wc3campaigns.

and be aware that you cannot use functions which has arguments this way...

 

[Sephalo]

Ahh thanks all. I can continue trying out little things now.

 

[Kingz]

I thought Rain. did all the coding for ya

Anyway timers as PurplePoot said.

 

[Sephalo]

I thought Rain. did all the coding for ya

Anyway timers as PurplePoot said.

Yeah RaiN is the coder for Oakwood. However I wanted to try something myself. Before RaiN joined the project I was Oakwood's "Coder". Had many leaks ofc and he fixed everything, but I still like to give it a shot once in a while.
Trying to make one of the smaller systems myself