General loop coding question

[dmarkwick 261]

I need to write a loop that executes for a set amount of time, not a set amount of loops. Within this loop is another loop that just goes round and round.

1. Can the time loop be done?

2. Will the endless loop quit at the end of the time?

Needs to look something like this:

Do for x seconds

{loop indefinitely

{code for "endless" loop

sleep n

}

}

It looks pretty stupid IMO, but that's what the question is for I cannot rely on the Sleep n as the value will be changing, so I cannot simply work out how many "n"s there are in "s". "s" itself is not fixed either.

All this is because I need to translate setParticleRandom, setParticleParams, setParticleCircle and setDropInterval code to Drop code.

[crashdome 2]

I do believe _time is a reserved variable that specifies how long (in seconds) the script has been running.

[edit]

Biki says _time does not work with execVM... so maybe use SQS script.

[5133p39 12]

Biki says _time does not work with execVM... so maybe use SQS script.

You can use time (without the underscore), as the Wiki says: it returns the time elapsed since mission started (in seconds).

So you can do something like this:<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">private ["_timeout"];

_timeout = time + 30; // the loop will be running 30 seconds

while {time < _timeout} do {

...do something...

sleep 0.5;

}

[Taurus 20]

Biki says _time does not work with execVM... so maybe use SQS script.

You can use time (without the underscore), as the Wiki says: it returns the time elapsed since mission started (in seconds).

So you can do something like this:<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">private ["_timeout"];

_timeout = time + 30; // the loop will be running 30 seconds

while {time < _timeout} do {

...do something...

sleep 0.5;

}

So simple and yet so genius!

I spawned a script which added a value each second...

Took me ~1hr to make that work!

[dmarkwick 261]

Thanks guys. I will try it & let you know