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Posted: **Sun Aug 26, 2012 5:53 pm**

Heya, propably this is a pretty noobish question, but how can I delay the execution of a command?
Thank you

kami

Posted: **Sun Aug 26, 2012 6:04 pm**

Heres one method, using python:
http://www.sourcepython.com/forums/showthread.php?143-GSRPG-(German-Slaughterhouse-RPG)-NOT-RELEASED-COMING-SOON&p=643&viewfull=1#post643

Posted: **Sun Aug 26, 2012 7:23 pm**

Thank you for the answer :)
I have this line:

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prot_delay = Timer(10.0, entity.SetPropInt("CBaseAnimating.m_nHitboxSet", 0))
        prot_delay.start()

But it gives me this error:

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Posted: **Sun Aug 26, 2012 7:26 pm**

Thats because your using it the wrong way :)

Try this:

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prot_delay = Timer(10.0, entity.SetPropInt, ["CBaseAnimating.m_nHitboxSet", 0])
        prot_delay.start()

Posted: **Sun Aug 26, 2012 7:28 pm**

You are executing the code directly instead of passing arguments.

Instead of:

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prot_delay = Timer(10.0, entity.SetPropInt("CBaseAnimating.m_nHitboxSet", 0))

Use:

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prot_delay = Timer(10.0, entity.SetPropInt, ("CBaseAnimating.m_nHitboxSet", 0))

Satoon

Posted: **Sun Aug 26, 2012 7:34 pm**

satoon101 i used [] because u wouldnt get strange problems using it that way, If people come back here to see what to do
(not saying your wrong just making sure people would notice the difference) :)

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Timer(10.0, FUNCTION, ("CBaseAnimating.m_nHitboxSet"))

would give this error for function that only accepts one argument

Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python33\lib\threading.py", line 639, in _bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "C:\Python33\lib\threading.py", line 825, in run
self.function(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
TypeError: FUNCTION() takes 1 positional argument but 27 were given

Posted: **Sun Aug 26, 2012 7:59 pm**

Well:

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("CBaseAnimating.m_nHitboxSet")

This is not a tuple:

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>>> type(("CBaseAnimating.m_nHitboxSet"))
<class 'str'>
>>> type(("CBaseAnimating.m_nHitboxSet", ))
<class 'tuple'>

So, you are basically passing a string, when you should be passing an iterable.

To make it a tuple, use the following:

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("CBaseAnimating.m_nHitboxSet", )

You can also use a list, as you have, but that really is not the proper way to do it.

Satoon

Posted: **Mon Aug 27, 2012 4:27 am**

Thanks for the explaination satoon was helpfull

Posted: **Mon Aug 27, 2012 9:55 am**

As I said be careful with the timers, if it happens to execute on mapchange (for player props for example), the server will crash :P

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