timer questions

I have some questions on timers. Specifically I want to use a timer to execute a script function five seconds after some event. As far as I know world.DoAfterSpecial could potentially create thousands of one shot timers (I'll be doing this a lot) so I wanted to use a timer. However, as far as I can tell a timer simply fires every 5 seconds after created, regardless of whether it is enabled or not. This leaves no guarentee that the timer will fire exactly 5 seconds after it is enabled. It could potentially fire at any time within those five seconds.

Is there anyway to ensure that it will fire only 5 seconds after being enabled? I tried using world.ResetTimer, but this did not seem to have any effect.

resettimer is your best bet. Make sure you use it after you've enabled the timer though, or else it won't reset properly.

Oh I see, I was reseting it before enabling it. I'll try that now, thanks a lot.

I have amended the documentation for ResetTimer to make it clear they must be enabled first.