Issues with delay()

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Hi, I’m learning how to use this and I don’t understand what what’s wrong…

it’s supposed to be executed after 5 seconds or am I wrong?

function scheduledExecution()
   print('Hello world!')
end

delay(5000, scheduledExecution())
2

This isn’t milliseconds. You just put in 5000 seconds, which is why it won’t execute.

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3

I saw the formula from google and this is supposed to be so, what’s wrong?

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5

As I just said, you put in 5000 seconds, it’s supposed to be in seconds, not ms.

6

Delay, unlike other languages that take milliseconds, takes seconds. Therefore, 5000 seconds is 5000 seconds, not 5 seconds. I’d also like to point out that you should switch to the new and improved task library. Example:

local function waitTwoSeconds()
    print("Waited 2 seconds!")
end

task.delay(2, waitTwoSeconds) -- Waits 2 seconds, then runs the function
7

my outout:

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function scheduledExecution()
   print('Hello world!')
end

delay(5, scheduledExecution)

This should work if I’m not wrong.

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9

Oh I see! thanks guys now it’s solved! :smiley:

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