invokeLater function problem in script Library

[pturmel]

FWIW, I implemented an emulation of invokeLater for gateway scope in my later.py helper script, mentioned here:

Reset Tag Value after a Number of Seconds

It’s unfortunate that there’s no alternative to invokeLater in gateway scope. I may just have to add something to later.py to address this.

and here:

Ignition 8 invokeLater function doesn't seem to exist

I’ve updated later.py for Ignition v8. It includes an implementation of invokeLater usable in gateway scope.

Note that it uses officially unsupported methods to obtain the appropriate context.

The official method of obtaining delays in gateway scope (per IA support) is to use a sleep in an asynchronous thread. That's just ugly. Almost unforgivable. /: