Wait for Condition

[Faestus]

I've heard Waits are messed up.

Is Wait for Condition any good? Should I use it at all?

 

[ap0calypse]

Waits aren't messed up, but they can mess things up if you're not careful.
You just need to know what you can do with waits and what you cannot do.

Post about waits.
Treat "Wat for condition" the same way.

 

[Faestus]

Yes, but it's wait for condition... Not wait a given period of time.

Should I make a trigger?

 

[deathismyfriend]

u can use a trigger that runs periodically to check if the wait has ended then turn it off when ur done for more accuracy.

 

[ap0calypse]

Yes, but it's wait for condition... Not wait a given period of time.

I've already answered this:

Treat "Wat for condition" the same way.

 

[edo494]

wait for condition is just simple code that calls wait every so often and checks if the conditions has been met yet(in Jass, its something like:

loop
    if SomeFunction(some arguments) then
        exitwhen true
    endif
    call TriggerSleepAction(0.3) //or some other value, I dont know 
endloop

)

 

[BloodDrunk]

who said you wait are messed up? they works perfectly normal

 

[deathismyfriend]

who said you wait are messed up? they works perfectly normal

not exactly lol. they are inaccurate. thats what the person probably meant by messed up

 

[BloodDrunk]

not exactly lol. they are inaccurate. thats what the person probably meant by messed up

lol, nothing is perfect, right..
But I don't see why waits would be messed up...

 

[deathismyfriend]

lol, nothing is perfect, right..
But I don't see why waits would be messed up...

they are inaccurate because of the way they count time. Take a look at this http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/2284304-post9.html

 

[BloodDrunk]

I know about that, could you make 100% accurate waits?

 

[deathismyfriend]

I know about that, could you make 100% accurate waits?

no because reals themselves are inaccurate. Even the periodic events are inaccurate. but they are much more accurate than waits themselves.
for an accurate periodic event in jass u actually use 0.031250000 but GUI only allows for 2 decimal places.

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Hmm, let's forget about the real accuracy when it comes to timers. It's negligible. However, the wait inaccuracy is not (for waits shorter than a second).

Wait doesn't take lags into account. If a drop player dialog appears, waits still count down, that's why lags might heavily mess up spells with waits inside.

Polled Wait is better in this regard, as it uses a timer internally to increase the wait length for an amount of game time. But Polled Wait suffers the same inaccuracy as ordinary waits and leaks a handle ID (note: not a handle, just an ID).

 

[deathismyfriend]

Hmm, let's forget about the real accuracy when it comes to timers. It's negligible. However, the wait inaccuracy is not (for waits shorter than a second).

Wait doesn't take lags into account. If a drop player dialog appears, waits still count down, that's why lags might heavily mess up spells with waits inside.

Polled Wait is better in this regard, as it uses a timer internally to increase the wait length for an amount of game time. But Polled Wait suffers the same inaccuracy as ordinary waits and leaks a handle ID (note: not a handle, just an ID).

I linked the wait inaccuracy thing that ap0calypse had made.
Main reason i posted. Is a handle id leak only happens when the handle is destroyed but the handle id doesnt get recycled into the id pool i guess to call it ?

 

[edo494]

yes, and that happens when you not null variables, thats why most BJ's sucks, because most of them wont null or anything like that