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Asked: 2026-06-04T17:20:36+00:00

I’m developing a simple simulation involving city budgeting for local officials to use. I

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I’m developing a simple simulation involving city budgeting for local officials to use. I have developed a map for the simulation and an algorithm that ‘grows’ the map when its function is called. Thus, updateMap(); results in numerous changes across the field of play. Currently, I have this function bound to other mechanisms in the game, called once every time something else happens, for example. My question is this: is there any way to have something like this

while (true)
    setTimeout('updateMap();', 45000);

such that the map will update itself independently of whatever the user is doing and whatever is going on in the game. I understand that Javascript doesn’t support threading, but is there any to simulate some simple thread that would act like this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You would be looking for setInterval(updateMap, 45000)

    It will take the function you give it and run it every x milliseconds.

    Hope this helps!

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