setTimer

Schedules a Lua function to run after a delay, optionally more than once.

Syntax

int setTimer(function callback, int intervalMs, int timesToExecute, ...)

Name	Type	Required	Description
`callback`	`function`	yes	The function to execute.
`intervalMs`	`int`	yes	Delay between executions in milliseconds. The minimum is 10.
`timesToExecute`	`int`	yes	Number of executions. Use 0 to repeat indefinitely.
`...`	`any`	no	Optional values passed to the callback each time it runs.

Returns a positive timer identifier on success, or 0 when the timer could not be created.

Print a message three times at one-second intervals:

local timer = setTimer(function(message)
    print(message)
end, 1000, 3, "One second passed")