Check if Condition is Still True After a Number of Seconds

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1

This might be a bit hard to understand, but (the following is not what I’m using this for but it’s easiest to understand like this) say you walked into an area, and after 3 seconds you got teleported. If you did something like

player.EnteredArea:Connect(function()
wait(3)
if player.IsIn(area) then
player:Teleport()
end
end)

(Obviously this wouldn’t work but it’s just an example) If the player left and went in again in between those 3 seconds, they would still be teleported. Does anyone know how I could do something to fix this?

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2

Well for the example since you check after the wait then it would not teleport if your not in the zone so that way works.

3

Yeah but if the developer was looking for the player to be teleported specifically after 3 seconds then it would just seem immediate to the player. That example wasn’t that great but do you get the general idea of what I’m trying to achieve?

I know you could do something like

for count = 0.1, 3, 0.1 do
wait(0.1)
if not player.IsIn(area) then
break
end
end

but I would prefer if there was a shorter solution because that takes up six lines.

4

You could do (I think, don’t know if it works like that in a repeat until)

local count
repeat task.wait(0.1) 
    count += 0.1
until not player.IsIn(Zone) or count == 3
5

I have a different example, say the player clicked a button and started a stopwatch, if they stopped the stopwatch but then started it again in under 1 second, then it would keep going from where it left off. Or have two going at the same time making it look buggy.
E.g.

local minutes,seconds = "0","0"
repeat
	seconds = tostring(tonumber(seconds+1))
	if seconds == "60" then
		minutes = tostring(tonumber(minutes+1))
		seconds = "0"
	end
	counter.Text = string.format("%02d:%02d",minutes,seconds)
until waiting == false

If I were to do this then I would have to add task.spawn or something which means I’d have two loops running at the same time.