Easiest way to make lua script wait/pause/sleep/block for a few seconds?

Question

I cant figure out how to get lua to do any common timing tricks, such as

• sleep - stop all action on thread

• pause/wait - don\'t go on to the

Answer 1

For the second request, pause/wait, where you stop processing in Lua and continue to run your application, you need coroutines. You end up with some C code like this following:

Lthread=lua_newthread(L);
luaL_loadfile(Lthread, file);
while ((status=lua_resume(Lthread, 0) == LUA_YIELD) {
  /* do some C code here */
}

and in Lua, you have the following:

function try_pause (func, param)
  local rc=func(param)
  while rc == false do
    coroutine.yield()
    rc=func(param)
  end
end

function is_data_ready (data)
  local rc=true
  -- check if data is ready, update rc to false if not ready
  return rc
end

try_pause(is_data_ready, data)