Lua Registering GlobalEvent onTime dynamically tfs 1.3

[zuber966]

Hi!
I'm trying to register global event dynamically inside function. My code looks like this:

function registerEvent(plusMinutes)

    local someEventCreatedDynamically = GlobalEvent("event_name")

    function someEventCreatedDynamically.onTime(interval)
        do some stuff on time
    end

    local clocknum = os.date("!%X",number):split(":") -- h:m:s
    local startTime = tostring(clocknum[1]) .. ":" .. tostring(clocknum[2] + plusMinutes):split(".")[1]

    someEventCreatedDynamically:time(startTime)
    someEventCreatedDynamically:register()
end

Even hardcoding time does nothing. Console is clear. Is it possible what I'm trying to accomplish?

 

[zbizu]

did you call the function?

registerEvent(plusMinutes) (below last end)

 

[zuber966]

did you call the function?

registerEvent(plusMinutes) (below last end)

Yes. I just found about addEvent(callback, delay, ...) function in luascript.cpp. It should be fine if I'm gonna be able to pass arguments to callback. Will let know here

EDIT

@zbizu I wanted to call registerEvent(plusMinutes) from another lua function.

Alright, addEvent works just fine. Problem is solved, but I'm still curious if it is possible what I've done above.

 

[zbizu]

local g = GlobalEvent("yourEventName")
g:type("time")
g:time("21:00:00")
g:onTime(yourFunctionName)
g:register()

This is the syntax I believe, though I'm not sure if you can split the creation to two parts. It's better to just pass necessary parameters to addEvent and create the event there.

edit: for clarification: if you have function executeSomething() some code end, your onTime will look like this: g:onTime(executeSomething)