Re: Scripting

[Ingo Ruhnke <grumbel@gmx.de>]

Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.net> writes:

> Well, that doesn't reproduce what my switch does - which is to make
> it impossible to turn the light switch off for ten seconds after you
> turned it on...but in any case, this was just a silly example - real
> scripts get much more complex.

With the event-approach you could also emulate your while() loop:


def my_while_loop():
        if (check_some_condition())
                do_something()
                # Wait 30 Seconds
                timed_hook.register(my_while_loop, 30sec)
        else
                timed_hook.register(my_while_loop, 10sec)

# Start my_while_loop after 10 seconds
timed_hook.register(my_while_loop, 10sec)
 

The only problem I see with this is that it will get ugly when you
have large sequences of hook-stuff (a person walking around and
talking to different other person), but a simple pre-compiler or
macros should help here.

I actually can't really imagine a situation where that shouldn't work,
could you give a more complex example?

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