Sleep or Spawn.

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Aug 4 2009, 2:23 am
How would you find out how much sleep or spawn is left and tell the usr or src for that matter.

mob
    proc
        sleep()
            if(!src.value)
                src.value=1
                sleep(60)//
                src.value=0
            else
                src<<"You must wait [sleep] seconds to click this again."// how would you relate the sleep 60 to the sleep var T_T
Aug 4 2009, 2:49 am
You can't actually do this.

What you'd have to do is make a value, then take away from that value every tick. Like so:

mob
    proc
        Sleeping(var/x)  //sleep() won't compile.
                    //And for procs like this, I like to define things like how much to sleep for
                    //instead of trusting it to always be 60, or something.
            if(!src.value)  //if false..
                src.value=1  //Make true
                for(src.sleep=x,    //set src.sleep
                src.sleep != 0,      //if we aren't at 0 yet...
                src.sleep-=1) sleep(1)    //Take away 1. Also wait for one tick.
                src.value=0  //When we're all done, make false again.
            else
                src<<"You must wait [round((src.sleep/10)+1)] seconds to click this again."
    verb
        Test()
            Sleeping(60)
Aug 4 2009, 2:54 am
In response to Demon_F0rce
ah thanks.
Aug 4 2009, 3:19 am
 
mob/var/tmp/timer

mob/proc/sleep_proc()
   if(!src.value)
       src.value=1
       src.timer=60
       while(src.timer > 0)
          src.timer--
       src.value=0
   else
      src<<"You must wait [src.timer] seconds to click this again."


That'd be how I'd do it. You can't do it with a sleep or spawn. You have to do it with a while or a for loop, so you can keep track of the time left with a variable.
Aug 4 2009, 4:35 am (Edited on Aug 4 2009, 4:48 am)
In response to Andre-g1
You forgot one thing. sleep() is required on your loop.

You should avoid unnecessary loops. You don't need a loop for this.

mob/var/tmp/timevar // don't save this var

mob/proc/sleep_proc()
   if(world.time>=timevar) // check the time
        timevar = world.time+60 // add 60 ticks (6 secs) to current world.time
        // add actions here
   else
        src<<"You must wait [(timevar-world.time)/10] seconds to click this again."


EDIT: Added comments for the Original Poster.
Aug 4 2009, 5:21 am
In response to Jemai1
Jemai1 wrote:
You forgot one thing. sleep() is required on your loop.

You should avoid unnecessary loops. You don't need a loop for this.

> mob/var/tmp/timevar // don't save this var
> 
> mob/proc/sleep_proc()
>    if(world.time>=timevar) // check the time
>         timevar = world.time+60 // add 60 ticks (6 secs) to current world.time
>         // add actions here
>    else
>         src<<"You must wait [(timevar-world.time)/10] seconds to click this again."
>

EDIT: Added comments for the Original Poster.

Yeah, this is the best option here. It's the most efficient.
Aug 4 2009, 9:34 am
Because everybody else is giving bad suggestions:

Change your variable to indicate WHEN something will no longer be locked out, rather than whether it's locked out or not. It's then easy to compare to world.time:

mob/verb/wait()
  if(world.time >= src.value)
    src.value = world.time + 60
  else
    src << "You must wait [src.value - world.time] ticks to click this again."