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Posted 13 September 2014 - 05:55 PM
I need some help making a background task and i do not know how so i came to here for help :)/> i need to run os.start timer in the background whiteout it halting access to the PDA/Computer can someone help me.
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Kaunas, Lithuania
Posted 13 September 2014 - 07:19 PM
Did you mean
sleep (aka
os.sleep)? Because
os.startTimer doesn't yield (halt) the computer. It starts a timer (internally) and returns it's unique ID (a number).
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Tasmania (AU)
Posted 14 September 2014 - 02:45 AM
The best way to do it depends on the code you want to run "alongside" the timer.