Adding a delay to an addon?

[Eleuthria]

I'm working on an addon which grabs some information from /who requests which are going to be sent by the addon.

How can I make it so it sends the different /who requests every 'X' seconds, since you can't send multiple requests back-to-back.

[Freki]

Originally Posted by Eleuthria I'm working on an addon which grabs some information from /who requests which are going to be sent by the addon. How can I make it so it sends the different /who requests every 'X' seconds, since you can't send multiple requests back-to-back.

You'll have to use the OnUpdate handler.
Example (using no XML)

local MyAddon = CreateFrame("frame")

local elapsed = 0
function MyAddon:OnUpdate(update)
     elapsed = elapsed + update
     if (elapsed > 3) then
          SendWho("Doomchicken")
          elapsed = 0
     end
end

MyAddon:SetScript("OnUpdate", function(self, update) self:OnUpdate(update) end)

Since OnUpdate is called every... 0.05 sec or so, you might want to disable it when you're not using it via MyAddon:SetScript("OnUpdate", nil)

[Duugu]

Add all new requests to a queue and create an OnUpdate handler and sum up the "elapsed" parameter (this is the time since the last OnUpdate).

example:

queue = {}
table.insert(queue, "request1")
table.insert(queue, "request2")
table.insert(queue, "request3")
table.insert(queue, "request4")
...

local OnUpdateTimer = 0
local ActionTimer = 10

function OnUpdateHandler(elapsed)
	OnUpdateTimer = OnUpdateTimer + elapsed
	if OnUpdateTimer > ActionTimer then
		OnUpdateTimer = 0
		if table.getn(queue) > 0 then
			SendWhoblablabla(queue[1])
			table.remove(queue, 1)
		end
	end
end

[Duugu]

Originally Posted by Freki Since OnUpdate is called every... 0.05 sec or so

afaik OnUpdate is called on every rendered frame. This could be every 0.05, once a minute or potentially never - depends on your frame rate.

[Eleuthria]

Thank you very much, worked like a charm and hopefully my little addon will be taking over the world shortly .

[Freki]

Originally Posted by Duugu afaik OnUpdate is called on every rendered frame. This could be every 0.05, once a minute or potentially never - depends on your frame rate.

Still gets the point across If someone is getting 1 frame per minute I think the last thing they want is a mod that does work when it doesn't need to on that frame lol

[Jzar]

Also consider using the WhoLib library off of WoWAce. This is used to queue up all /who requests from any addon, guarantee that they are sent, and then pass the info back to the calling addon. Would make your mod work well with Prat or other addons that can hog /who bandwidth.