Make text disappear and appear after some time

Garry's Mod coding
#1

Hi, i’m using this code to display random text for players.
The question is, is it possible to make text disappear after 10 seconds and then appear with random text?


local hints = { -- table of options 
    "Random text 1",
    "Random text 2"
}

local current = math.random(#hints) -- index of currently displayed text from the table

local function newRandom() -- function to change current text to some other random entry
    local old = current -- prevent same items from being chosen twice in a row
    while current == old do
        current = math.random(#hints)
    end
end

timer.Create("My Hints", 50, 0, newRandom)

local function drawText() -- function to actually draw our text
    draw.DrawText(hints[current])
end

hook.Add("HUDPaint", "My Hints", drawText)
#2

Don’t use while, it will crash the game, add your hook when you need to draw it and use hook.Remove to remove it from drawing

#3

no it won’t

#4

Mind explaining why?

#5

Going to need some clarification on this.

#6

It’ll only crash if the randomly chosen hint is the same as the last hint over a large number of iterations. As long as the size of the hint array is more than 1, it should be near impossible to crash the game.

#7

There is no need to create two threads for the same problem? You got an answer in your last thread??