Code to "wait" for something to happen after touching

[GordonBrune]

A student is wondering is there is a “wait” code? He wants his player to wait for a certain amount of time when touching another object and then for the player’s velocity to increase. We looked through the game lab docs but couldn’t find something that would do that.

Code.org

I did see this solution pop up when typing this request.

Is there a way to pause the code (wait command?)

I’m not too familiar with JavaScript and am figuring out the weblab coding, but I have a student that wants to cycle through various sprites which would mean drawing them then either covering them with a background or making them not show up problem seems to be that we’ll never see them without slowing down the code with something like a wait and changing world frame rate doesn’t seem to help. I’m hoping there’s some way to have the program pause for a bit sort of like a wait block in scratch …

Thanks in advance!

[mriley]

See if this helps
Basically, you use world frame rate

try this

[IMPixel]

You can use the setTimeout() function in Javascript. It does something once the amount of milliseconds you indicated in it passes. Use:
setTimeout(toDoFunction, timeInMilliseconds)

[GordonBrune]

Thanks so much, IMPixel!!