Is there a way to stop minetest.register_globalstep?

[Andrey01]

Is there a way to stop minetest.register_globalstep call? It is infinte?

[ChimneySwift]

Are you talking about a way to stop callbacks registered from other mods? Or by your own mod? If by your own mod it should be fairly simple:

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runner = true

time = 0
minetest.register_globalstep(function(dtime)
    time = time + dtime

    if time >= 10 then
        runner = false
    end

    if runner then 
        -- do stuff
    end
end)

This will run the globalstep for 10 seconds (approx. 100 iterations) then stop.

[Andrey01]

Thanks, ChimneySwift. That i needed.

[sofar]

it's slightly more efficient to use `minetest.after()` if you do not need to run lua code every globalstep.

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local function work()
    minetest.after(10, work) -- once every 10 seconds
    -- do something
    print("work done")
end
minetest.after(10, work)