Game Freezing - Timer.pause And Timer.resume

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#1

Hello,

I have many timers running in my game and I am trying to make the pause button function properly.  Basically, when I go to pause, everything works correctly and pauses up.  When I resume, things start to act strangely.  For example, after resuming the timers, sometimes display objects end up moving extremely fast and sometimes all timers in the level will randomly freeze up and then begin again after a period of time.

Below is some code to pause and resume my timers.  This probably isn’t the nicest code, but I wanted to be sure to get the “performWithDelay” in there when going through all of my existing timers.  Also, when the pause button is hit, gameIsActive == false.

Are there any suggestions or ideas for workarounds?

local result

local h = 1

function pauseAllTimers()

if (h <= 25) then

    if (timerIndex[h] ~=nil) then

    result = timer.pause(timerIndex[h])

    local timerToString = tostring(timerIndex[h])

    print ("timer paused: " … timerToString )

    print( "Time remaining is " … result )

    end

h = h + 1

else

h = 1

print("Game Status: ", gameIsActive)

return

end

timer.performWithDelay(1, pauseAllTimers)

end

local z = 1

function resumeAllTimers()

if (z <= 25) then

    if (timerIndex[z] ~=nil) then

    result = timer.resume(timerIndex[z])

    local timerToString = tostring(timerIndex[z])

    print ("timer resumed: " … timerToString )

    print( "Time remaining is " … result )

    end

z = z + 1

else

z = 1

print("Game Status: ", gameIsActive)

return

end

timer.performWithDelay(1, resumeAllTimers)

end

function gameStart()    

    pauseListener(“add”)

    gameListeners(“add”)

    

if (gameIsActive == true) then

    updateBackgrounds()

    timerIndex[1] = timer.performWithDelay(5000, updateGate, 1)

    timerIndex[2] = timer.performWithDelay(10000, mouseRun, 1)

    timerIndex[5] = timer.performWithDelay(10000, updateGate, 1)

    timerIndex[3] = timer.performWithDelay(15000, ufoFlight, 1)

    timerIndex[4] = timer.performWithDelay(30000, updateJet, 1)

    timerIndex[6] = timer.performWithDelay(35000, ufoFlight, 1)

    timerIndex[7] = timer.performWithDelay(45000, mouseRun, 1)

    timerIndex[8] = timer.performWithDelay(50000, updateJet, 1)

    timerIndex[9] = timer.performWithDelay(60000, ufoFlight, 1)

end    

    

end

gameStart()  

#2

Hi @billv1979,

You might like to try a loop method instead, and place all of your timers in a table, like this:

[lua]

local timerIndex = {} --timer storage table, as you have it
function pauseAllTimers()

for t=1,#timerIndex do

timer.pause(timerIndex[t])

end

end

[/lua]

Hope this helps,

Brent Sorrentino

#3

Hi @billv1979,

You might like to try a loop method instead, and place all of your timers in a table, like this:

[lua]

local timerIndex = {} --timer storage table, as you have it
function pauseAllTimers()

for t=1,#timerIndex do

timer.pause(timerIndex[t])

end

end

[/lua]

Hope this helps,

Brent Sorrentino

#4

Hi Brent, although this code is nice and clean, it still didn’t solve the timer confusion problem which causes random freezes and such.  However, I did find something that resolved all of my problems with timers at the following location.  This is a script created by Lerg:

http://developer.coronalabs.com/code/pausable-timers-and-transitions-speed-adjustment

Thank you,

-Bil

#5

Hi Brent, although this code is nice and clean, it still didn’t solve the timer confusion problem which causes random freezes and such.  However, I did find something that resolved all of my problems with timers at the following location.  This is a script created by Lerg:

http://developer.coronalabs.com/code/pausable-timers-and-transitions-speed-adjustment

Thank you,

-Bil