Delaying output to chat window

[xavram]

I was trying to come up with a way to set a delay between multiple broadcasts to the chat window, so that you could get something like...

Player needs to roll a 5 or better...
(pause for 2 seconds)
...and get a 4! Fails!

So I tried this

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[H:currentTime = json.get(getInfo("client"),"timeInMs")]
[h : currentPlus = sum(currentTime,700)]
[h:ok=0]
[broadcast("Start")]
[h,while (!ok), CODE:{
    [newTime = json.get(getInfo("client"),"timeInMs")]
    [if(currentPlus < newTime):ok=1]
}] 
[broadcast("Over!")]

2 things i noticed.
1. If I used a value greater than 700, I got an error. Not sure why in the world 700 would be threshold for this..
2. Instead of a 700 millisecond delay between the "Start" being broadcast and the "Over!" being broadcast, I got the delay when I first called the macro, but the Start/Over! get broadcast one right after the other, no delay.

Is there a way to achieve what I'm talking about? Thanks!

[wolph42]

Yes but you'll need to defer the second macro. look it up in the wiki

[xavram]

Hmmm...I see the stuff related to defer in the execLink section, but I guess I don't understand it.

Any ideas why it would balk at a value greater than 700?

[aliasmask]

Hmmm...I see the stuff related to defer in the execLink section, but I guess I don't understand it.

Any ideas why it would balk at a value greater than 700?

Took me a second to think of why, but 700 is probably the time it takes that loop to go around 1000 times which is when it errors out of the loop. Using execlink and deferring creates a new execution thread and is a way to avoid the loop limit. The loop limit was recently increased in the newer build so I suspect you're still using an older version. Went from 1,000 to 10,000.

[xavram]

haha, okay, that makes sense! I think I saw the post about the loop limit getting increased in one of the 1.4.x versions.