Cheat Engine

MuckySpud · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 06 Jun 2020 Posts: 8

Hey guys, I am running into a strange issue with a lua script not activating the timer I am setting. I have included a screenshot of my simple test script along with the lua engine output to show only part of the code is being activated.

The strange thing is that if I go into the lua engine itself and paste the code in and execute it manually, the timer works flawlessly and will print the text "Timer activated" every 3 seconds. However when I run it from a script on the table itself by activating the check box, only the start of the code will work while the timer remains idle.

I was able to enable hotkeys to enable and disable the timer and disabling and re-enabling the timer kick starts the timer but surely there is a reason behind the script not activating the timer from the cheat table but working flawlessly from the lua engine itself?

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Dark Byte · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2023 7:40 am Post subject:

MuckySpud · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 06 Jun 2020 Posts: 8

Dark Byte · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2023 7:49 am Post subject:

try just createTimer() without parameters

MuckySpud · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 06 Jun 2020 Posts: 8

ParkourPenguin · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2023 2:35 pm Post subject:

Timers are similar to the GUI in that you should only touch them from the main thread. "Execute asynchronous" runs {$lua} blocks in a separate thread. Use `synchronize` or other means if you must do such work from a separate thread.

Also, put "if syntaxcheck then return end" at the top of {$lua} blocks.