CancellationToken Support

[berkayk]

Hi,
I couldn't find a way to integrate cancellation tokens. How can I use them?
Thanks.

[KyryloKuzyk]

This was a design decision not to rely on System.Threading namespace. PrimeTween supports async/await simply by adhering to C# language specification. This ensures that PrimeTween can work on platforms that don't support threads, like WebGL.

So I'm afraid that there is no support for CancellationToken. The closest alternative is to use tween/sequence.Stop() if you need to interrupt an animation midway.

[berkayk]

Thanks.
Sometimes the player leaves the app in the background, and animation resumes when they return. This is a multiplayer game, so these differences create some problems in the game state such as one player resumes the game while the other still watches the animation. How can I solve this? Maybe I can listen to some AnimationStopped action and close the relevant tweens(sequences).

[KyryloKuzyk]

@berkayk I don't have a full context to give an exact answer for your use case, but here are a few options from the top of my mind:

1. Set useUnscaledTime = true, so animations are not tied to the ingame time, but to the real time. This way after exiting the background animations will jump forward to accommodate for the passed time.
2. If you have your own mechanism that synchronizes time between the server and peers, you can use the elapsedTime property to manually set the elapsed time of tweens and sequences.

[berkayk]

Wish I knew useUnscaledTime before :/ That's why you have to read the f manual 😅
Thanks!