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| Don’t use do later for things that you need to adjust the timing of, or things where you might create more and more of them like a motion controlled light. Use the [[tutorials: | Don’t use do later for things that you need to adjust the timing of, or things where you might create more and more of them like a motion controlled light. Use the [[tutorials: | ||
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| + | If you need a regular callback to the same handler or need to create such an event in another script use the [[dictionary: | ||
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| ===Usage: | ===Usage: | ||
| **do later** [text] the name of the handler to do later. This will always be in the same script, you cannot do later into a different script. This works for Global Script, unit ON or OFF scripts or Interface scripts.\\ | **do later** [text] the name of the handler to do later. This will always be in the same script, you cannot do later into a different script. This works for Global Script, unit ON or OFF scripts or Interface scripts.\\ | ||
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| **in** [integer] the number of milliseconds to call the handler specified in the default parameter. A second is 1000 milliseconds so if you wanted to run the named handler in 4 seconds you would specify 4000.\\ | **in** [integer] the number of milliseconds to call the handler specified in the default parameter. A second is 1000 milliseconds so if you wanted to run the named handler in 4 seconds you would specify 4000.\\ | ||
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| - | **with data** [any or list of any: optional] if you have information you wish to pass on to the handler you can specify it here. Passing {“one”, “two”} would pass those into a handler written as: on myHandler( paramOne, paramTwo) where paramOne would be “one” and so forth. | + | **with data** [any or list of any: optional] if you have information you wish to pass on to the handler you can specify it here. Passing {“one”, “two”} would pass those into a handler written as: on myHandler( paramOne, paramTwo) where paramOne would be “one” and so forth. See the [[tutorials: |
| ===Examples: | ===Examples: | ||
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| + | ===See Also:=== | ||
| + | * [[dictionary: | ||
| + | * [[dictionary: | ||
| + | * [[xtension_manual: | ||
| ===Notes: | ===Notes: | ||
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