timer.Simple not working?

[ARitz Cracker]

Hey, I haven't been scripting in GLua for a while so forgive me if I look like an idiot.

I've been trying to use
[lua]
timer.Simple(1, self.ActuallyCreatePortal, self)
[/lua]
in my code, and "Attempt to index local 'self' (nil value)" Shows up in console. This happens for any timer.Simple I try to use.

So, I'm wondering, has Garry removed the timer.Simple functionality?

[Swiftone]

No Garry did not remove timer.Simple. Whether or not he changed how they are used I am not sure. Here try this instead:

        timer.Simple(1, function()
			self.ActuallyCreatePortal
		end)

[Aaron113]

Actually try this....

timer.simple(1, function() self.ActuallyCreatePortal() end)

He forgot one thing. ^^

[Swiftone]

Thanks :p

[Wizard of Ass]

[QUOTE=Aaron113;41015480]Actually try this....

timer.simple(1, function() self.ActuallyCreatePortal() end)

He forgot one thing. ^^[/QUOTE]

[lua]timer.Simple(1, function() self:ActuallyCreatePortal() end)[/lua]

[Bo98]

[QUOTE=Wizard of Ass;41018735][lua]timer.simple(1, function() self:ActuallyCreatePortal() end)[/lua][/QUOTE]

[LUA]timer.Simple(1, function() self:ActuallyCreatePortal() end)[/LUA]

[Wizard of Ass]

Oh, I copy pasted the above code and the S seemed correct :v:

[Caratt]

I'm having the same problem I can't get my timer to work either:

timer.Simple(20, function() self:map_changing() end)

Based off what I read here but it doesn't do anything. Here's my function:

function map_changing()
end

[brandonj4]

[QUOTE=Caratt;41023174]I'm having the same problem I can't get my timer to work either:

timer.Simple(20, function() self:map_changing() end)

Based off what I read here but it doesn't do anything. Here's my function:

function map_changing()
end

[/QUOTE]

[lua]timer.Simple(20, function() map_changing() end)[/lua]

[Caratt]

I'll try it I've tried so many different methods to get it to work and not having any luck today.

[brandonj4]

[QUOTE=Caratt;41023258]I'll try it I've tried so many different methods to get it to work and not having any luck today.[/QUOTE]

There's only one way, because of the syntax...

[Caratt]

This worked before the latest update:

timer.Simple(20, map_changing)

[brandonj4]

[QUOTE=Caratt;41023323]This worked before the latest update:

timer.Simple(20, map_changing)

[/QUOTE]

LOL, that was way back for GMOD12.

Here's all the changes since you don't seem to know about them.

[URL="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1khSuIYrAMkqXu7wlH5YRJNwz6hOH6Xqi5lqBhE3x6gA/edit"]https://docs.google.com/document/d/1khSuIYrAMkqXu7wlH5YRJNwz6hOH6Xqi5lqBhE3x6gA/edit[/URL]

[Caratt]

brandonj4 I'm not kidding before the latest update that code worked perfectly fine.

[~Razor~]

basically

[lua]timer.Simple(20, function() map_changing() end)[/lua]

[Willox]

The second argument to timer.Simple is a function.

timer.Simple(20, function() map_changing() end)

and

timer.Simple(20, map_changing)

will each have the same outcome.

The change with timer.Simple is that you can no longer pass arguments directly to the function that the timer module calls, map_changing is an argument-less function so this is no issue.

[Bo98]

Funny how simple questions seem to take a few posts to finally get the right answer. Happened both times and I've seen it plenty of times before.

[Willox]

It's caused by what seems to be general misunderstanding that quite a lot of people around here seem to have and I believe it creates a problem for new (or any) developers with questions

[ARitz Cracker]

Well, my timer problem is fixed, thanks guys.