[library] cron.lua - time management for LÖVE - v2.0 is out!

[kikito]

I am sorry but you will have to give me a little more than that.

• What did you expect to happen, where?
• What has happened instead?
• What have you tried?

[Kasperelo]

1. I expected the screen to shake.
2. An error.
3. Asking you, since I don't know anything about cron.lua.

[kikito]

I am sorry but I don't have time to dig through your code right now - especially with so little direction. Perhaps others in the community will want to step in.

[Jasoco]

I don't think the problem lies with cron. I suspect it's a defective shake function. Have you tried testing to make sure the shake works by itself? Attach it to a key press for testing.

[SiENcE]

Is it possible to get access to dt in the callback function? When I look at the code, only args are passed, but not dt.

[Tanner]

Is it possible to get access to dt in the callback function? When I look at the code, only args are passed, but not dt.

What would dt be in the context of a cron callback? Wouldn't it just be the interval that you specified?

[kikito]

The callback is invoked after many dts. Which one would you pass to the callback? The last one?

[SiENcE]

Yes, the last one.

[Rockford]

Are you wanting to pass dt through so it can be used by the function that is being triggered by the cron?

[kikito]

Yes, the last one.

You can use a table to hold a reference to it then. For example, a player table:

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local clock = cron.after(5, function()
  print(player.last_dt)
end)

...

function love.update(dt)
  player.last_dt = dt
  clock:update(dt)
end

The only other option I can think of is overriding clock.update yourself to use dt.