Quicker Sleep in Developer Help

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Nov 13 2010, 9:46 am
I am trying to make a text box appear on screen, which is working successfully. However, i am trying to make letters appear, one after the other, in the box, making it look as if the letters are being typed in. This works also, but the problem i have with it is that when i use sleep(1), it types too slowly.

Does anyone know how to make it type faster, without it all appearing immediately? (Decimals dont work, and any number <= 0 in sleep makes it appear immediately.)
#1 Nov 13 2010, 10:48 am
The only way to get a shorter sleep is to change world.tick_lag, which has a bunch of probably-undesired effects. My advice is to just make the letters appear in chunks of 2 or 3 or 4, instead of 1 at a time.
#2 Nov 13 2010, 11:14 am
In response to Garthor (#1)
Ah, that works. Thanks Garthor.
#3 Nov 13 2010, 11:37 am
In response to Garthor (#1)
Garthor wrote:
The only way to get a shorter sleep is to change world.tick_lag, which has a bunch of probably-undesired effects. My advice is to just make the letters appear in chunks of 2 or 3 or 4, instead of 1 at a time.

You can do sleep(world.tick_lag*n) w/ n as any positive integer, and it would reduce sleep times without causing undesired effects.
#4 Nov 13 2010, 1:17 pm
In response to CauTi0N (#3)
No, it wouldn't.
#5 Nov 14 2010, 6:43 am
In response to Garthor (#4)
Either way, Garthor's way works just fine. Thanks anyway.