Is Timer Better than TriggerRegisterTimerEvent?

[Overfrost]

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Because I never see the latter being used despite it being there. Why always timers?

 

[DracoL1ch]

??? it really depends.
If you have to have trigger to register some event BESIDE timer, you go with trigger and use TriggerRegisterTimerEvent()
if you only need timer event, you go with timer
if you need both timer and event, but you as well need control over timer countdown to be able to reset it or change duration, you have to go with TriggerRegisterTimerExpire(), because the timer created by TriggerRegisterTimerEvent() cannot be manipulated anyhow, basically unavailable.
And of course, innerly TriggerRegisterTimerEvent() does all the same as if you'd create timer manually and run it. As I said, the only difference is the access to that timer. Not to speak that obviously TriggerRegisterTimerEvent faster, because timer creation done in native code, not jass level.

 

[Overfrost]

If you have to have trigger to register some event BESIDE timer, you go with trigger and use TriggerRegisterTimerEvent()
if you only need timer event, you go with timer

I see. Thanks for clarifying things mate.

I'll just stop and not ask the difference between trigger-handle and timer-handle, especially their speed. Hahah.

 

[DracoL1ch]

no real diff in speed, you just omit CreateTimer() & nulling local handles when do that via trigger's functionality