Pulling an event for a certain amount of time

Hi everyone! :D/>/>

I'm making a program and I need it to only do os.pullEvent() for a certain amount of time (2 seconds). Is there anyway to do this considering os.pullEvent freezes the computer until an event occurs? Thanks

If you do os.startTimer() beforehand, the os.pullEvent() will grab the timer event after that set time period if no events are sent before the timer event fires.

So:

local eventtocatch = 'key' --(for example)
local timeout = os.startTimer(2)
local e,arg1,arg2,arg3 = os.pullEvent()
if e=='timer' and arg1==timeout then
--time up
elseif e==eventtocatch then
--execute other code
end

Pharap, on 02 November 2012 - 04:39 PM said:

If you do os.startTimer() beforehand, the os.pullEvent() will grab the timer event after that set time period if no events are sent before the timer event fires.

So:

local eventtocatch = 'key' --(for example)
local timeout = os.startTimer(2)
local e,arg1,arg2,arg3 = os.pullEvent()
if e=='timer' and arg1==timeout then
--time up
elseif e==eventtocatch then
--execute other code
end

Thank you very much! This was simpler than I thought ^-^

You're welcome. I've recently been working quite closely with os.pullEvent so this was something I practically jumped on lol