How long is too long for a script to execute?

[VulturARG 5]

Hi, 

 

I tried that an scripts start running 2 hrs after game started. This code is from EOS script

if (_pause > 0 and !_initialLaunch) then {
	for "_counter" from 1 to _pause do {
		if (_hints) then {
			hint format ["Attack ETA : %1",(_pause - _counter)];
		};
		sleep 1;
	};
};

They code after that never started.

Is there any way to wait for long period?

 

Regards

[killzone_kid 1330]

Doesn’t say much

[VulturARG 5]

10 hours ago, killzone_kid said:

Doesn’t say much

 

I need that a process wait 2 hours for start.
Meanwhile the mission is running
It's possible?
With that code that I wrote before, the code never started to run after those lines.

[M1ke_SK 230]

waitUntil { sleep 1; time > 7200 };
// your code

 

[killzone_kid 1330]

13 hours ago, VulturARG said:

 

I need that a process wait 2 hours for start.
Meanwhile the mission is running
It's possible?
With that code that I wrote before, the code never started to run after those lines.

sleep (2*60*60);

// your code

[VulturARG 5]

14 hours ago, killzone_kid said:

sleep (2*60*60);

// your code

 

Some people told me that Arma 3 can kill process if it are in a long waiting loop.
I don't know is that is true. This was the reason to my question.

[Harzach 2517]

A sleep isn't a loop. A while/do loop will, in specific situations, terminate itself after 10k iterations, but that's not relevant here. Other than that, not sure what "some people" are talking about.

[Dedmen 2700]

On 5/20/2020 at 6:37 PM, M1ke_SK said:

waitUntil { sleep 1; time > 7200 }; // your code

If you want to wait 2 hours, checking every second seems a bit excessive doesn't it?

Checking once per minute would be more than sufficient..

[M1ke_SK 230]

1 hour ago, Dedmen said:

If you want to wait 2 hours, checking every second seems a bit excessive doesn't it?

Checking once per minute would be more than sufficient..

Not very much information to go on how OP want to use it tho.

This is general idea that works for every case. It depends on use.

 

From what I see, he is using it for some counting ETA to some wave, so you probably want to have precise counter there.

[killzone_kid 1330]

20 hours ago, VulturARG said:

 

Some people told me that Arma 3 can kill process if it are in a long waiting loop.
I don't know is that is true. This was the reason to my question.

unless you terminate the script with 'terminate' command or overload the scheduler so that it gets broken, the script won't be unloaded from scheduler

 

[VulturARG 5]

On 5/22/2020 at 7:15 AM, M1ke_SK said:

From what I see, he is using it for some counting ETA to some wave, so you probably want to have precise counter there.

 

Yes, I count for a few minutes, to long waits. It's will be used in different situation in parallel

[VulturARG 5]

Thanks to all!!!

 

I run some test and I saw that using for with sleep, have delays in busy servers. I'll try this solution:

 

On 5/20/2020 at 1:37 PM, M1ke_SK said:

waitUntil { sleep 1; time > 7200 };
// your code