Scheduled Events in Addons

[kixer]

Is it possible to create a scheduled event in an addon? Just to be clear I mean a programmable event, a call to lua script at given time, not the event in the game calendar.

I've googled for a while and found out that ACE lib should be able to do this. I've looked into it and did not find it. What I need is to create a delay between two actions (like wait 5 sec...)

I am familiar with the onUpdate event, but I quite don't get how this works. I think it passes the number of actuall "onUpdates" of the frame whenever it is called. But I was unable to figure out how would I get the time from it yet. Maybe if I've accessed the system time/realm time? Is this possible in addon?

---------- Post added at 02:01 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:10 AM ----------

As it usually happens, I found the answer shortly after I've asked. Looks like I got the onUpdate functionality correctly. For more information, you can check the following article on WoWWiki.

[nightcracker]

Extremely simple.

local wait, frame = 5, CreateFrame("Frame")
frame:SetScript("OnUpdate", function(frame, elapsed)
    wait = wait - elapsed
    if wait <= 0 then
        self:Hide()
        
        -- DO STUFF HERE
    end
end)

[Ultraviolence]

Could something like this be used to delay a spell cast? For example: cast spell1 - wait 2 sec - cast spell2 etc. Tried using the scripts above but they just create frame lag.

[nightcracker]

Could something like this be used to delay a spell cast? For example: cast spell1 - wait 2 sec - cast spell2 etc. Tried using the scripts above but they just create frame lag.

Not without full Lua hacks.

If with Lua hacks, yes.

[Ultraviolence]

Well no problems there, can you share some info?

[nightcracker]

Simple not that efficient example:

function castspellwdelay(spellname, delay)
	CreateFrame("Frame"):SetScript("OnUpdate", function(frame, elapsed)
		delay = delay - elapsed
		if delay <= 0 then
		    self:Hide()
		    CastSpellByName(spellname)
		end
	end)
end

Put that in some lua and then call in your macros castspellwdelay(spellname, delay) with delay in seconds (not rounded, so 1.34 will work).

[Ultraviolence]

With some slight modifications it works great. Thanks a lot. +Rep

[Ultraviolence]

oops double post

[Haroon525]

According to schedule , All events in addons will must be held at the time and there will no change made in this.
Schedule | PTV Sports