Cheat Engine

[sgsgwv$6263]

Whenever I try to create a timer inside a new thread in a script I get an access violation error message.

Is it possible to do what I am trying to do or the access violation might be for something else?

[ParkourPenguin]

Timers are related to the GUI. They need to be created and accessed in the main thread. Use `synchronize`

[sgsgwv$6263]

But that defeats the purpose of creating a seperate thread since it will block till the functions returns. But that function is creating a timer. What will happen to the timer after the function returns.

I am in a situation where I want the timer to run very fast like 50 milliseconds. But I also have a hotkey setup which because of the timer is (what I assume) reacting slowly. So i thought maybe creating a new thread will be beneficial. ChatGPt suggests using queue(). What do you think?

[AylinCE]

[sgsgwv$6263]

Got a workaround. Instead of creating an explicit timer I can implement a timer on the new thread with infinite while loops with sleep() in it for interval timing. Since this is not a cheat engine timer so will not cause access violation or block the main thread.

[AylinCE]

Intermittent Sleep() and "Infinite Loop", that sounds more dangerous.

Consider a solution where you are in control.

But still, the decision is yours.

[ParkourPenguin]

The separate thread is being used to avoid relying on pascal timers.

A while loop and a call to `sleep` in a separate thread is what should be done. Remember to check the Terminated property of the thread.
(even though the Lua interpreter is single threaded, CE doesn't need to lock a mutex to call `sleep` from Lua, so this is fine)

`sleep` shouldn't be called in the main thread to avoid freezing the GUI. In a separate thread, it's perfectly fine.