Sandbox: Lua: Timer - ov-studio/Vital.sandbox GitHub Wiki

━ What's the Objective?

Timer are useful when you've to repeat specific handler at some specified interval for n times; However, by default Lua doesn't offer timers out of the box.

━ APIs

━ timer:getType() (Shared)

@Objective: Retrieve's instance's type.

local string: type = self:getType()

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━ timer:create() (Shared)

@Objective: Creates a new timer.

local timer: cTimer = timer:create(
  function: exec,
  int: interval,
  int: executions,
  ~: ...arguments
)

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━ timer:destroy() (Shared)

@Objective: Destroys an existing timer.

local bool: result = self:destroy()