Waiting A Few Seconds Before Getting A Value From A Proc

[CoMMy]

Hey Guys.
Im Stuck again.

I have a timer in a proc.

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utimer 10 "putlog {[Is:X:Alive]}"

Everything is ok. What i mean is that the [Is:X:Alive] Gets the return from that proc. But what i want is to wait 10 seconds BEFORE it captures the return from the [Is:X:Alive] proc and not immediatelly.

Can you help?

Thanks

[stdragon]

I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean that you want to call Is:X:Alive and then print the return value 10 seconds later? Or, you want to wait 10 seconds, then call Is:X:Alive and print the return value right away? Or...?

[CoMMy]

stdragon said:

I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean that you want to call Is:X:Alive and then print the return value 10 seconds later? Or, you want to wait 10 seconds, then call Is:X:Alive and print the return value right away? Or...?

I want the second one!!! I want to want to wait 10 seconds, then call Is:X:Alive and print the return value right away.

[stdragon]

Really, the best way to do a timer is to make a proc for it, not try to put a bunch of code in the timer command itself. So do something like this:

proc my_timer_func {} {
putlog [isxalive]
... other stuff if necessary ...
return 0
}

Then to call it, simply:

utimer 10 my_timer_func

The other way would be to do something like

utimer 10 {putlog [isxalive]}

But that's not as nice.

Yet another option is to modify the isxalive proc and add a putlog at the end to print out the value, and then your timer call would simply be

utimer 10 isxalive

[CoMMy]

Thanks Man. U did it again!