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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>If you'll allow more than one object, then a combination of [onebang] or [once] with [delay] should do what you're looking for. You'll need to reset them each time, but it should still be simpler than using spigots.<br><br>Incidentally, from you title I was hoping that you were asking for a [delay] object that would schedule a bang n milliseconds <i>before </i>it was triggered. Now that would be something!<br><br><br><br>> howdy, [delay] ignores multiple input bangs and considers only the "last"<br><div>> <br>> from the help file:<br>> "sending a "bang" to a [delay] which is already set will reschedule its<br>> output, cancelling the old one."<br>> <br>> What if I wanted the opposite, like, further bangs will be ignored and not<br>> reschedule the output. The output would then be rescheduled only after it<br>> did output something and then received a new bang. Is there an object that<br>> does that?<br>> <br>> I made a patch that does it, with [spigot], seems to handle the job. Find<br>> it attached.<br>> <br>> cheers<br></div> </div></body>
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