Timed transitions to other passages?

Comments

• Hank

  January 2014

  here is how I do it with JavaScript settimeout and the twee API, though there may be a macro or other feature that does something similar.

  <<set $timer = setTimeout(function(){state.display("passageNameHere")},30000); /*display [passageNameHere] after 30 secconds*/ >>

  Example below is the above code refactored into a reusable function. To implement, add the following code block to a passage tagged "script".

  
window.displayTimer = function(passagetitle,delay){
delay = delay || 0;
return setTimeout(function(){state.display(passagetitle)},delay);
}


  Use function as follows.  The twine variable, "$timer", can be any name you want.

  <<set $timer to displayTimer("passageNameHere",30000) >>

  Cancel a timer using clearTimout().

  
<<set clearTimeout( $timer );>>

• L

  January 2014

  Use this macro.
• wrongtarget

  January 2014

  Jesus! I've been in your blog dozen in times, and I keep discovering macros I hadn't seen before :S
  
  Thanks, L!  That's perfect.
• nicoh642

  May 2014

  Hello Hank,
  
  Thanks for your code. I works perfectly to put the timer and activate it. But the variable the code
  
  <<set clearTimeout( $timer );>>
  
  doesn't work when i put it into a passage with text. Can anybody help me please? This is very URGENT (for tomorrow )
  
  Thank you very much !
  
  PS: I use the Timer in order to display several passages of one scene while the player is playing (in the story, the player plays while others characters are speaking)