How to wait in script

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Hi, I couldn't find a way to how to wait in script. I saw the "Task.Wait()" function but this is not suiting to my use case. Waiting for your helps. Thanks...

2

Can you expand on your use case a bit? Task.Wait() sounds like it should do what you need but we might need more info to go off here.

3

Is there an another way? Like "wait()" in Roblox.

6

Could you explain why Task.Wait() doesn't suit your needs? It does pretty much the same exact thing as Roblox's wait() function.

4

If you want to wait without blocking any other Tasks, then yes you'll have to call Task.Wait() or Task.Wait(seconds) also using Task.Spawn() - Reference

Alternatively (but this is kind of overkill in my opinion), you could create your own Timer script which runs off Events instead. Here's a simple one I wrote:

--[[
	Event-based Timer.
--]]

-- Properties
local DURATION = script:GetCustomProperty("Duration")
local TIMER_ID = script:GetCustomProperty("TimerId")
local START_TIMER_EVENT_NAME = script:GetCustomProperty("StartTimerEventName")
local STOP_TIMER_EVENT_NAME = script:GetCustomProperty("StopTimerEventName")
local PAUSE_TIMER_EVENT_NAME = script:GetCustomProperty("PauseTimerEventName")
local ON_TIMER_FINISHED_EVENT_NAME = script:GetCustomProperty("OnTimerFinishedEventName")

-- Validation
if TIMER_ID == "" then
	error("TimerId property cannot be an empty string.")
end

-- Variables
local currentTime = 0
local isTimerActive = false

function Tick(deltaTime)
	if isTimerActive == false then return end
	currentTime = currentTime + deltaTime
	if currentTime >= DURATION then
		isTimerActive = false
		currentTime = 0
		
		if ON_TIMER_FINISHED_EVENT_NAME ~= "" then
			Events.Broadcast(ON_TIMER_FINISHED_EVENT_NAME, TIMER_ID)
		end
	end
end

function StartTimer(timerId)
	if timerId ~= TIMER_ID then return end
	isTimerActive = true
end

function StopTimer(timerId)
	if timerId ~= TIMER_ID then return end
	isTimerActive = false
	currentTime = 0
end

function PauseTimer(timerId)
	if timerId ~= TIMER_ID then return end
	isTimerActive = false
end

-- Events
if START_TIMER_EVENT_NAME and START_TIMER_EVENT_NAME ~= "" then
	Events.Connect(START_TIMER_EVENT_NAME, StartTimer);
end
if STOP_TIMER_EVENT_NAME and STOP_TIMER_EVENT_NAME ~= "" then
	Events.Connect(STOP_TIMER_EVENT_NAME, StopTimer);
end
if PAUSE_TIMER_EVENT_NAME and PAUSE_TIMER_EVENT_NAME ~= "" then
	Events.Connect(PAUSE_TIMER_EVENT_NAME, PauseTimer);
end

You can then define the settings of each individual timer in the properties window:

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To start the above timer, I would call

Events.Broadcast("StartTimer", "MyCustomTimer");

To listen when the timer finishes, I would do:

function OnTimerFinished(timerId)
	if timerId == "MyCustomTimer" then
		-- do stuff
	end
end

Events.Connect("OnTimerFinished", OnTimerFinished);
5

Yep second one can be a solution but core games should add a wait function as soon as possible. Also thank you for your answers.