How Do I Delay A Script?

Question

All I am trying to do is add a half or full second delay to a line of code all i want is to play one animation and let it finish the switch to another.

  if (keyWentDown("space")) {
    player.setAnimation("attack");
    player.x = player.x+0.001;
  }
  drawSprites();
}

You would use [setTimeout](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/setTimeout). — mykaf, Oct 06 '22 at 19:55
Javascript and the original script is if (keyWentDown("space")) { player.setAnimation("attack"); player.x = player.x+0.001; setTimeout(player.setAnimation("player_idle")); } — EmberJack18, Oct 07 '22 at 14:00

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 06 '22 at 19:59

You can make a delay(milliseconds) function that returns a Promise and await it before running your code.

const delay = (time) => new Promise(res => setTimeout(res, time))

async function YourCode() {
   // code before delay
   await delay(1000)
  // code after delay
}

Not the async keyword of the function to be able to await the delay

How Do I Delay A Script?

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