ESOUI - Countdown / wait till function is done

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Countdown / wait till function is done

Hey, I just wonder if there is a way to pause a for-loop between every item.
My current approach is:

Lua Code:

local function sleep(s)
  local futureTime = GetGameTimeSeconds() + s 
 
  while GetGameTimeSeconds() < futureTime do end
end
 
local function testSounds()
  local duration = 5
  local count = 1;
 
  for key, value in pairs(UAN.Sounds) do
    PlaySound(value)
    Util.p("[%d]: %s", count, key)
    count = count + 1
    sleep(duration)
  end
end

But the for-loop is so fast, that it stacks all sleep-calls and causes to freeze the game. x)

What are you trying to approach?
MAybe you should have alook at LibAsync.

Or try to use
zo_callLater(function() ... end, delayInMS)
within the loop where delay will increase each time by 5 seconds and thus the code in the loop will just delay each PlaySound for 5, 10, 15, 20, ...seconds

There's no proper "sleep" function in eso, try reading this page (https://wiki.esoui.com/Running_LUA-Code_asynchroneously) to see how to 'work around' the 'lack of sleep' (:p)

Okay, thank you both, I will target the issue tomorrow. self:sleep(8h) :rolleyes:

So basically I found this big Sound list on the wiki https://wiki.esoui.com/Sounds, so I decided to go through it and maybe find some sounds for my next addon. Entering everything by myself in chat with "/script PlaySound(SOUNDS.ABILITY_CASTER_DEAD)" wasn't the right solution for me so I decided to write a little script which iterates through the list and play each sound one by one after a certain amount of delay.

My list structure was this:

Lua Code:

UAN.Sounds = {
  ["ABILITY_CASTER_BUSY"] = SOUNDS.ABILITY_CASTER_BUSY,
  ["ABILITY_CASTER_DEAD"] = SOUNDS.ABILITY_CASTER_DEAD,
  ["ABILITY_CASTER_DISORIENTED"] = SOUNDS.ABILITY_CASTER_DISORIENTED,
  ["ABILITY_CASTER_FEARED"] = SOUNDS.ABILITY_CASTER_FEARED,
  ["ABILITY_CASTER_LEVITATED"] = SOUNDS.ABILITY_CASTER_LEVITATED,
  ["ABILITY_CASTER_PACIFIED"] = SOUNDS.ABILITY_CASTER_PACIFIED,
}

After my game freezed, everytime I wanted to make a pause between the sounds, some kindly devs suggested me to use LibAsync for my purpose.
LibAsync: https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info2125-LibAsync.html
How to LibAsync: https://wiki.esoui.com/Running_LUA-Code_asynchroneously

The solution for my problem which worked at the end was the following code:

Lua Code:

local async = LibStub("LibAsync")
local task = async:Create("wait")
local count = 1;
 
local function someFunction(key, value)
  PlaySound(value)
  d(strfmt("[%d]: %s", count, key))
  count = count + 1
  -- delay my own task by doing nothing for 3s
  task:Delay(3000, function() end)
end
 
local function testSounds()
  -- go through the list asynchronous and execute someFunction() in each step
  task:For(pairs(UAN.Sounds)):Do(someFunction)
  count = 0
end
 
SLASH_COMMANDS["/test"] = testSounds

You could also use a LAM slider control to add the sounds to (build a choices tale by Looping over the SOUNDS table) and play them on setFunc change. Some of my addons like FCOStarveStop, FCOChatTabBrain or FCOUltimateSound use this.

This would be just too easy. :p Jokes aside, the funny thing is when I call the function in a current existing async task, it stops by default and starts again from the beginning.

My assumption was that I would create another task doing the same.