local timers = require 'timers' -- This t0 is constructed for 10 seconds, but its purpose is to exercise the -- query and cancel methods. It would print "t0 fired at..." if it fired, but -- it doesn't, so you don't see that message. Instead you see that isRunning() -- is true, that timeUntilCall() is (true, close to 10), that cancel() returns -- true. After that, isRunning() is false, timeUntilCall() returns (false, 0), -- and a second cancel() returns false. print('t0(10)') start = os.clock() t0 = timers.Timer(10, function() print('t0 fired at', os.clock() - start) end) print('t0:isRunning(): ', t0:isRunning()) print('t0:timeUntilCall(): ', t0:timeUntilCall()) print('t0:cancel(): ', t0:cancel()) print('t0:isRunning(): ', t0:isRunning()) print('t0:timeUntilCall(): ', t0:timeUntilCall()) print('t0:cancel(): ', t0:cancel()) -- t1 is supposed to fire after 5 seconds, but it doesn't wait, so you see the -- t2 messages immediately after. print('t1(5)') start = os.clock() t1 = timers.Timer(5, function() print('t1 fired at', os.clock() - start) end) -- t2 illustrates that instead of passing a callback to new(), you can -- override the timer instance's tick() method. But t2 doesn't wait either, so -- you see the Timer(5) message immediately. print('t2(2)') start = os.clock() t2 = timers.Timer(2) function t2:tick() print('t2 fired at', os.clock() - start) end -- This anonymous timer blocks the calling fiber for 5 seconds. Other fibers -- are free to run during that time, so you see the t2 callback message and -- then the t1 callback message before the Timer(5) completion message. print('Timer(5) waiting') start = os.clock() timers.Timer(5, 'wait') print(string.format('Timer(5) waited %f seconds', os.clock() - start)) -- This test demonstrates a repeating timer. It also shows that you can (but -- need not) use a coroutine as the timer's callback function: unlike Python, -- Lua doesn't disinguish between yield() and return. A coroutine wrapped with -- coroutine.wrap() looks to Lua just like any other function that you can -- call repeatedly and get a result each time. We use that to count the -- callback calls and stop after a certain number. Of course that could also -- be arranged in a plain function by incrementing a script-scope counter, but -- it's worth knowing that a coroutine timer callback can be used to manage -- more complex control flows. start = os.clock() timers.Timer( 2, coroutine.wrap(function() for i = 1,5 do print('repeat(2) timer fired at ', os.clock() - start) coroutine.yield(nil) -- keep running end print('repeat(2) timer fired last at ', os.clock() - start) return true -- stop end), true) -- iterate