How to stop multiple events

[Lucas Durais]

Hello guys

I want to know if there is a way of stopping a lot of events in the same time without creating a lot of stopEvent functions...

I tried to do like:

for i = 1, 100 do
     stopEvent(event+[i])
end

But I get nil value for event

Thanks!

 

[WibbenZ]

Not sure what the numbers are but you are doing it wrong;
The addEvent function returns an id; forgottenserver/luascript.cpp at master · otland/forgottenserver · GitHub

You should either assign it to a global variable or a global table so you can keep track of it, then you use that global variable in stopEvent, or loop the table with stopEvent.

 

[Infernum]

you don't need to use a stopEvent every time you use addEvent
if you're planning on using stopEvent, do what wibbenz said and save it in a table or variable somewhere so you can access it later
an example would be like this:

events = {}

function onUse(player, item, fromPosition, target, toPosition, isHotkey)
    local cid = player:getId()
    if events[cid] then
        stopEvent(events[cid])
    end
    events[cid] = addEvent(function() print(100) end, 5000)
    return true
end

saved an event id to events table using player id as the table key, so if the player keeps using the item, it will stop the old event and add a new one
if you wanted to create multiple events with the same player id, you can have a table like
events[cid] = {}
and then use a loop to add events to that new table

 

[Lucas Durais]

Thanks for the replys guys

I tried to put all the events with the same name, for example, event1, and stop them all with just stopEvent(event1), but also doesn't work
Why is that?

 

[Infernum]

Thanks for the replys guys

I tried to put all the events with the same name, for example, event1, and stop them all with just stopEvent(event1), but also doesn't work
Why is that?

because you cant do that, if you keep assigning values to the same variable they will be overwritten
unless you use a table and add a new index for each event

local events = {}
for i = 1, 10 do
    events[i] = addEvent(function() print(i) end, 10000)
end

and use this to stop them

for i = 1, 10 do
    stopEvent(events[i])
end

 

[Lucas Durais]

Ok, that worked for me, thanks.