Question

How would I execute some code after a set number of milliseconds?

I only want to execute it once.

Thanks

Answer 1

There’s the pygame.time.set_timer(eventid, milliseconds) function, which generates an event with id eventid on the event queue every milliseconds milliseconds, which you can then handle however you like. You can stop the event from being generated again by calling pygame.time.set_timer(eventid, 0).

SDL has an SDL_AddTimer function that does exactly what you want — you pass it a callback function to be executed after some delay, but from the documentation I can’t really find the pygame equivalent.

For a python solution, you can use the threading.Timer class.