Help with Timers.... (SOLVED)

[JRock]

I've been trying to use a timer for a sequence in my game and I cannot figure it out.Ã,  I read through the manual and the info on timers was not helpful.

Here's the situtation:

I have two characters in a room.Ã,  (The playable character and a NPC).Ã,  The playable character is "STAN", the npc is "SEC."
I wanted to set it up, so that ten seconds after stan enters the room, sec will turn and face him and say something.

So I started with this:

Code: ags

 // script for Room: Player enters room (after fadein)
SetTimer (1, 400);

To begin Timer 1, to go for ten seconds (400 game loops).

Now, I have to use this:

Code: ags

if (IsTimerExpired(1) == 1) {
Character[SEC].FaceCharacter(STAN, eBlock);
Wait (20);
DisplayMessage (25);

This will make SEC face STAN, wait 20, then display message 25 after ten seconds have elapsed, I think....The above code may be wrong, so if anyone knows how I could correct it, that would be awesome!)

Another problem is, Where should I use the event for when the time expires (After Fade-in, Repeatedly execute, etc.)?

Any help would be awesome!Ã,  Thanx everyone!!Ã,  Ã, 

[Gilbert]

The codes seem to be working apart from possibly some small glitches (for example the character object names and the missing } in the second part, but I'll expect that's just a typo here), so why don't you try it first?

They can be just fine in repeatedly_execute(), since a timer will expire just once, so it guarantee the code would be execute once when the time's up.

And the (possibly) fixed code:

if (IsTimerExpired(1) == 1) {
Ã,  cSec.FaceCharacter(cStan, eBlock);
Ã,  Wait (20);
Ã,  DisplayMessage (25);
}

(The first character[SEC] should actually be okay, just that cSec is easier to read.)

[JRock]

Thanks gilbot!Ã,  it works now.

(I did forget the last "}".)

I made a simple mistakeÃ,  , but thanks for pointing it out for me!Ã,  Ã,