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    <p>I cant figure out how to get lua to do any common timing tricks, such as</p> <ul> <li><p>sleep - stop all action on thread </p></li> <li><p>pause/wait - don't go on to the next command, but allow other code in the application to continue </p></li> <li><p>block - don't go on to next command until the current one returns</p></li> </ul> <p>And I've read that a </p> <pre><code>while os.clock()&lt;time_point do --nothing end </code></pre> <p>eats up CPU time.</p> <p>Any suggestions? Is there an API call I'm missing?</p> <p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: I wrote this question a long time ago trying to get WOW Lua to replay actions on a schedule (i.e. stand, wait 1 sec, dance, wait 2 sec, sit. Without pauses, these happen almost all in the same quarter second.) <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1024960/how-do-you-make-a-combo-of-two-emotes-in-lua-in-world-of-warcraft-work?lq=1">As it turned out WOW had purposely disabled pretty much everything that allows doing action on a clock because it could break the game or enable bots.</a> I figured to re-create a clock once it had been taken away, I'd have to do something crazy like create a work array (with an action and execution time) and then register an event handler on a bunch of common events, like mouse move, then in the even handler, process any action whose time had come. The event handler wouldn't actually happen every X milliseconds, but if it was happening every 2-100 ms, it would be close enough. Sadly I never tried it.</p>
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