Citizen.SetTimeout

This will execute the specified function after the specified amount of milliseconds.

Syntax

Citizen.SetTimeout(int milliseconds, function callback)

Required arguments

  • milliseconds: The amount of milliseconds to pause the current thread.
  • callback: The function to run after the timer completes.

Examples

This example will print This will be sent after 5 seconds. to the console after waiting for 5 seconds, meanwhile all other code around this part won’t be blocked having to wait for this function to finish.

Citizen.SetTimeout(5000, function()
  print("This will be sent after 5 seconds.")
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