Is it possible to have a wait between 2 actions in an activation trigger?

[sknam 2]

Is it possible to have a wait between 2 actions in an activation trigger?

ab setunitpos "down"; sleep 10; ab setunitpos "middle"

When I tried this, it looks like the game read and executes all actions immediately.

Is there syntax to make a pose in the same activation field?

[Przemek_kondor 14]

In field "on activation" all sleep commands don't work.

Try this:

tmp = [] spawn {ab setunitpos "down"; sleep 10; ab setunitpos "middle";}

[sknam 2]

Great !

Thank you Przemek_kondor!

I don't understand why the game allow this with a wait command: tmp = [] spawn{...

but it works :o

Edited November 15, 2009 by SKNAM

[nomdeplume 0]

It works because the trigger code is run as part of a main game thread, and as such it's not allowed for it to "block" execution - otherwise the whole game would stop for the duration of the sleep (or something like that). The "spawn" command creates a new separate thread of execution, so the spawn's code block is run in parallel with other scripts.

As a further aid to understanding; if you were to do:

player sideChat "hi there";
tmp = [] spawn {ab setunitpos "down"; sleep 10; ab setunitpos "middle";};
player sideChat "bye now";

Then when the trigger is activated, the player would immediately say "hi there" AND "bye now", while the unit 'ab' would go prone and after 10 seconds kneel.

Edited November 17, 2009 by some kind of guy
Removed suggesting to use nil = ... don't do that!