Time Delay

Hey, I'm programming a plugin that does various things, but I've hit a stumbling block. I went to the wiki to find out more about time delays and found this piece of code that would help me out:

myPlugin.getServer().getScheduler().scheduleSyncDelayedTask(myPlugin, new Runnable() {
public void run() {
getServer().broadcastMessage("This message is broadcast by the main thread");
}
}, 60L);

It works great, but I need to be able to customize the delay. Since 60L goes to 3 seconds, I infer that 20 --> 1 second. But how can I have an integer that is editable in a config file replace this?

Please help.

 

You might be able to do: long.parseLong(config.getInt("delay")) * 20L;

 

Chiller
Would you mind giving me an example in code, please? It makes it easier to understand.

 

myPlugin.getServer().getScheduler().scheduleSyncDelayedTask(myPlugin, new Runnable() {
public void run() {
getServer().broadcastMessage("This message is broadcast by the main thread");
}
}, long.parseLong(config.getInt("delay in seconds")) * 20L);

 

D: Chiller
"Syntax error on token "long", invalid Expression"

 

Change where it says "long.parseLong" to "Long.parseLong".

 

Try capital L for long

 

hmm.. I feel dum for missing that. Anyways, couldn't I just use "main.int * 20L"? Without the Long.parseLong...
Chiller
AbeJ

 

Just cast it to a long instead of parsing it

 

Yeah, you could. I'm not sure why the parseLong was in there.

 

Thanks AbeJ and Chiller .
Furthermore, on the statement, we use the variable "myPlugin" two times.. I have this inside an onPlayerLogin event listener. I can just replace the first myPlugin with the a player variable, but what about the second? Should I just use Plugin "plgn = null;" ?

 

You can't set it to null if you need to use it

 

Chiller
What should I be assigning the Plugin variable to then?

 

Well what is it being used for and or by?

 

Chiller
myPlugin.getServer().getScheduler().scheduleSyncDelayedTask(myPlugin, new Runnable() {
public void run() {

 

Do new MyMainClassName();

 

Chiller
Thanks again. One more question.. What if I wanted something done by the plugin constantly, until a said amount of time passed, how would I do it?

 

You would make an asynchronous repeating task and put a variable count up one each time in there.

 

No, don't do that. You should use a reference to your actual plugin object. There are many ways to do this. You can pass the plugin to whichever object this code is in, or you can put the plugin object in a static variable somewhere. You just need a reference to your plugin.

 

Chiller
So like..

Code:

int i =0;
plr.getServer().getScheduler().scheduleSyncDelayedTask(new Contributor(), new Runnable() {
public void run() {
while (i < Contributor.time + 1) {
//Content here
i++;
}
}
},  0L, 20L);

That would run it constantly, every second until the time is up? (Time measured in seconds.)

 

Please DO NOT listen to Chiller. They don't understand this.
You don't create a new instance of your plugin class. That will mess things up, and generally not work. Just pass in "this" in the constructor. I'm a bit pressed for time, hopefully someone explains it better below me.

 

Will this work, then?​

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int i =0;​

plr.getServer().getScheduler().scheduleSyncDelayedTask((Plugin) this, new Runnable() {​

public void run() {​

while (i < Contributor.time + 1) {​

//Content here​

i++;​

}​

}​

}, 0L, 20L);​

?

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Holy shit?! That was just a quick fix for his problem you don't have to get all bitchy.

 

Sorry :-(. I was really tired when I wrote that.
Your method simply wouldn't work. That's why I said what I did.