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Revision as of 06:04, 10 October 2007

Summary

Function: llSetTimerEvent( float sec );
0.0 Forced Delay
10.0 Energy

Cause the timer event to be triggered every sec seconds. Passing in 0.0 stops further timer events.

• float sec

Caveats

Examples

float gap = 2.0;
float counter = 0.0;

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        // Activate the timer listener every 2 seconds
        llSetTimerEvent(gap);
    }

    touch_start(integer total_number)
    {
        llSay(0, "The timer stops.");
        llSetTimerEvent(0);
        
    }

    timer()
    {
        counter = counter + gap; 
        llSay(0, (string)counter+" seconds have passed");
    }
}

See Also

Events

•  timer

Functions

•  llSensorRepeat

Deep Notes

Signature

function void llSetTimerEvent( float sec );