--[[ Copyright (c) 2010-2013 Matthias Richter Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. Except as contained in this notice, the name(s) of the above copyright holders shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written authorization. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. ]]-- local Timer = {} Timer.__index = Timer local function _nothing_() end local function new() return setmetatable({functions = {}}, Timer) end function Timer:update(dt) local to_remove = {} for handle, delay in pairs(self.functions) do delay = delay - dt if delay <= 0 then to_remove[#to_remove+1] = handle end self.functions[handle] = delay handle.func(dt, delay) end for _,handle in ipairs(to_remove) do self.functions[handle] = nil handle.after(handle.after) end end function Timer:do_for(delay, func, after) local handle = {func = func, after = after} self.functions[handle] = delay return handle end function Timer:add(delay, func) return self:do_for(delay, _nothing_, func) end function Timer:addPeriodic(delay, func, count) local count = count or math.huge -- exploit below: math.huge - 1 = math.huge return self:add(delay, function(f) if func(func) == false then return end count = count - 1 if count > 0 then self:add(delay, f) end end) end function Timer:cancel(handle) self.functions[handle] = nil end function Timer:clear() self.functions = {} end -- default timer local default = new() -- the module return setmetatable({ new = new, update = function(...) return default:update(...) end, do_for = function(...) return default:do_for(...) end, add = function(...) return default:add(...) end, addPeriodic = function(...) return default:addPeriodic(...) end, cancel = function(...) return default:cancel(...) end, clear = function(...) return default:clear(...) end, }, {__call = new})