Cheat Engine

[SomeoneElse123]

Hi, I'm working on my lua script and I want to ask if ce offers any function how to inject a small pause to the script. It does one function, then does nothing for a second or two and then it does the next function. If anyone knows how to do that, please let me know

[Dark Byte]

sleep(timeinmilliseconds) (best used in a thread)

or timer

[DaSpamer]

You could try running a loop while statement with calling processMessages() so cheat engine will respond at least, it can work but there will be much performance penalties.

I wrote an example of how to use threads (for this kind of actions - delayed actions).
It uses threads suspend and resume, which saves us lot's of cpu (better than using sleep function and especially for/while loops)

https://forum.cheatengine.org/viewtopic.php?p=5744228#5744228

[atom0s]

Look into coroutines for Lua, this is what they are for.

[Scorm]

atom0s is right, look into coroutines and yield() to have an effective solution that doesn't "do nothing for X seconds".

Otherwise, you might want to create a timer on a form with the desired wait time interval.