How do you pause?

I'm making a new script for my recruiter object
I need to put a pause of about 3 seconds between the actions in said script
I'm a total noob scriptwriter so I have no idea how how to do this
Can someone help me please?

llSleep sounds like what you need, but just to warn you, that's exactly what it does, so the script can't do anything at all during that pause

Like Ruthven says...

Another approach is to use llSetTimer(3). This will cause a timer() event to trigger 3 seconds in the future. In this case, you could allow *some* operations of the script to proceed, but skip the ones that you want to "pause". I guess in this case you mght also have a global flag that you set while pausing.

Rough outline...from memory, untested,

int pausing = FALSE;

pause(float t)
{
   pausing = TRUE;
   llSetTimerEvent( t );
}

...snip...

   if ( !pausing ) { do stuff here};

...snip...

   pause( 3 );

... while pausing, the stuff won't happen...

   timer()
   {
       pausing =  FALSE;
       llSetTimerEvent(0); // turns off timer
   }
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Sorta similar, you can also do something like this..

integer gStep = 0;

default
{
    listen or touch or collide or whatever your trigger is()
    {
        llSetTimerEvent (3.0);
    }

    timer()
    {
        gStep++;

        if (gStep == 1)
        {

        }
        else if (gStep == 2)
        {

        }
        else if (gStep == 3)
        {

        }
.
.
    }
}
CODE

another approach would be to use a pause state and a timer, it is very efficient but could be a tad more complicated because you have to handle the state_entry() event properly.

default{}
some_event(){
state pause;
}
}

state pause{
state_entry(){
llSetTimerEvent(3);
}

timer(){
llSetTimerEvent(0);
state default;
}
}