Wait/Pause/Sleep?

[Jackim]

Can you upload a .love file?

[T-Bone]

You're not putting dt as argument to the love.draw function, are you? It should be to love.update, nothing else.

[Knuxchan]

You're not putting dt as argument to the love.draw function, are you? It should be to love.update, nothing else.

Nope. It's only in the update function, and that's all. I put this line in the update function:

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 love.graphics.print(dt, 100, 200)

When that didn't work, I put the same line in the draw() function. It didn't show anything at first, but as I was editing the x,y, coordinate of where I wanted the text shown, the text suddenly appeared, but it keeps saying '0.003', It doesn't change.

Can you upload a .love file?

Done!

[Jackim]

The way you've set up your code, for whatever reason, makes it so dt doesn't work in your update function.

I put it in the love.update built in function and it works fine.

[Jasoco]

It's probably a better idea to do

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love.timer.sleep( 5 )

The above would keep the CPU running all the time, which probably isn't neccesary.

No. Don't do this. It's better to use or design a timer library and use those. I threw my own together for use in my own game and there's a few here you can use.

[Knuxchan]

The way you've set up your code, for whatever reason, makes it so dt doesn't work in your update function.

I put it in the love.update built in function and it works fine.

Thank you! So if I understand correctly, for anything that requires timers or the utilization of 'dt' I will need to always put those calculations in the actual built-in update function instead of the 'pcall' one?

[T-Bone]

Yes, that's correct. If you want to call other functions that use dt, call them from within love.update and pass on dt as an argument.

Love.timer.sleep is, as far as I know, mainly used in threads that aren't the main thread.