Timer macro?

Ekami

Hi, I'm pretty new to using twine and I'm working on my first story in Harlowe. What I'm trying to do is find a way so that after clicking a link to a new passage, that passage who's link you followed will then expire after a short time before reverting back to the previous passage. I'm sure there's a way to do this and its probably just staring me in the face.

Sorry if this has already been asked. I did a pretty extensive search, but it didn't really yield what I was looking for. Also sorry if this isn't specific enough. I can try to explain it better if needed.

Neoroman

For anything time related, the (live:) function works well enough as a simple timer.

(live: 5s)(goto: "previous passage")(stop:)

(Hopefully I utilized that right...)

Sharpe

Neoroman wrote: »

(live: 5s)(goto: "previous passage")(stop:)

Should be:

(live: 5s)[(goto: "previous passage")(stop:)]

Ekami

Thanks, guys!

greyelf

Moving from one passage to another causes (live:) based timers to be destroyed, so in this case the (stop:) macro is not needed but it does not hurt for it to be included.