Timed transitions to other passages?

wrongtarget

Self explanatory subject But is there a way so that a passage automatically moves into another after certain amount of time?

Hank

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

Use this macro.

wrongtarget

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

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)