Timer interaction help

[JudgeDeadd]

  Have you played Apprentice? There is a moment there where Master needs some time to walk to the door, so you can quickly hide. I'd want to implement something similar. How to do it?

[Ishmael]

First of all, descriptive subject, right?

You can do this with timers. Look in the manual. To get speech use DisplaySpeechBackground().

[Gregjazz]

Umm... Yeah, well...

I didn't use a Timer. In fact, I didn't know they existed until AFTER I scripted my own timer function.

[JudgeDeadd]

"to get speech"? I didn't asked about this.

[Gregjazz]

He means the speech in the background. This is not irrelevant to timers. In fact, the "DisplaySpeechBackground" is quite useful.

[Moresco]

You can use timers for lots of things.  Check the syntax for SetTimer under Game/Global functions in the Help Contents.

Oh and DisplaySpeechBackground doesn't seem to delay anything, it returns right back to the game, so I am also confused how that is useful?? Maybe a full-example is in order.

[Ishmael]

I just meant that when using DisplaySpeechBackground for something like the master saying "Coming", you can start hiding allready when he says it...

[Moresco]

Ah gotcha, that cleared things up thanks.  ^^