Infinite looping

[rapid shore]

Coming back to scripting, and I got a dumb question.
If I make a looping macro go forever (like a poorly worded while). How do I kill the macro?

[zealous patrol]

Hard close MT and hope autosave saves you.

[rapid shore]

whelp. Is there a way to make a macro fire of every 30 seconds for like 5 minutes then?

[dawn pumice]

Did you actually cause an infinite loop, MTScript has a built in loop ceiling that should kill the macro so I wonder how you managed to not get caught by that

[rapid shore]

yes i did :/

using defered macros

[h: id = currentToken()]

[h: loopamount = loopamount-1]
[h, if (loopamount > 0), code:{
    [h: link = macrolinktext("turn2@lib:rock","none",loopamount,id)]
    [h: execLink(link, 1)]
};{}]

but i messed up the if condition

well... I think

[dawn pumice]

yeah defered macro is run an new macro... 😦

[rapid shore]

managed to get it to run. I was trying to make some kind of animation with a rotating token.
For some reason it absolutely lag the whole thing (even when it dosnt loop infinitely)
Anyway I dropped the whole thing, was a dumb attempt

[dawn pumice]

The map rendering lagged?

[rapid shore]

yea, rotation where super choppy

[misty iron]

Can't say it would have interrupted this particular looping issue... but in the past I've had some success with holding down the ESC key while the loop is in progress.

[dawn pumice]

for animation purposes if you could delay how long of a delay would you want, because that would also be choppy

MTScript wouldn't be reliable with < 1 second timers

[rapid shore]

probably that yea

delay loop was like 200 ms

nah, checked, when i start 2 rotating object the whole interfac elag

even zooming in/out

[dawn pumice]

yeah, sadly MTScript runs on the GUI thread, so you have
Script->Refresh Map->Script->Refresh Map->... (and so on) so other UI messages like zoom, menus macro buttons get interspersed between that meaning they could take a while to process

[stuck siren]

Wait for the auto-save time to pass before killing it.

Find the feature request for a macro killing button or key combo and vote me too.

[zealous patrol]

I'd done a good bit of playing around with token rotation and animation.
Locally, things are good, but for remote players, token rotation has always been choppy. The timing is a busy loop.
I can point you to the code bits in ActionPads if you're interested.

Another example with two tokens:

[stuck siren]

Animation will never work for tokens over a network. You have no control over the timing.

[zealous patrol]

I know in 1.11.5 remote performance in my testing was pretty good, but you're correct, it will never be "really good".
In 1.12.x performance went down to a really choppy remote experience.
I haven't d-loaded the 1.15 (still on 1.15.rc3), performance seems "really good" via a LAN but yeah, network remoteness will be a problem

The one thing on my list was to use CSS instead of the token (like lib:slide or the dice).

[stuck siren]

@zealous patrol stop spending your time on it and get smart, learn Java, and implment agif and webp in MT code