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Can a (live:) macro update its own cycle time?
Tl;dr: Can I make a (live: $variable) macro which changes its own variable each cycle? If so, how?
Largely out of curiosity I want to do something like this on Harlowe:
This would create a countdown that gradually sped up if it worked. Sadly, it doesn't. The (live:) macro seemingly only checks the value it is given once (which is fair enough for most applications) so updating $cycleTime has no effect. I tried nesting one (live:) macro within another but the results were.... weird (try:
if you would like to see the weird. I have played around with various times for the top level/first macro, but the weird is persistent. I think I understand what is happening here, but it's not the behaviour I want).
So, is there a solution? It's not style-crucial, but it would be fun for some of the stuff I am working on.
Thanks for reading and for any and all responses
Largely out of curiosity I want to do something like this on Harlowe:
(set: $whatever to 100) (set: $cycleTime to 1000) (live: $cycleTime) [ $whatever (set: $whatever -= 1) (set: $cycleTime -=5) (if: $cycleTime is 0)[(stop:)] ]
This would create a countdown that gradually sped up if it worked. Sadly, it doesn't. The (live:) macro seemingly only checks the value it is given once (which is fair enough for most applications) so updating $cycleTime has no effect. I tried nesting one (live:) macro within another but the results were.... weird (try:
(set: $whatever to 100) (set: $cycleTime to 1000) (live: $cycleTime)[ (live: $cycleTime)[ $whatever (set: $whatever -= 1) (set: $cycleTime -=50) (if: $cycleTime is 0)[(stop:)] ] ]
if you would like to see the weird. I have played around with various times for the top level/first macro, but the weird is persistent. I think I understand what is happening here, but it's not the behaviour I want).
So, is there a solution? It's not style-crucial, but it would be fun for some of the stuff I am working on.
Thanks for reading and for any and all responses
Comments
You can use a counter within the macro. Just use another variable, not the one you used for the macro parameter. Then you reduce that variable and check its value to (stop:) when a certain value is reached.
http://twine2.neocities.org/#macro_live