If that's really an equilateral triangle, shouldn't the square root of 3 be involved somehow?

Pause for an exact amount of time, in milliseconds

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WaitMS = function(milliseconds)
   while (stime = math.abs(timer.GetMilliSecCounter()+milliseconds))<
            math.abs(timer.getMilliSecCounter()) do end
   return true
end

Don't use that one.  Use a custom-made implementation of this that fits your application-specific needs instead:

Quote from: Ashbad on June 22, 2011, 08:57:36 am

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global_flags = {is_paused = nil}

setupBeginNoBreakPause = function(milliseconds)
   global_flags.is_paused = timer.start(milliseconds/1000)
end
   
-- all events are surrounded with a limited that doesn't allow anything to happen while the flag is set

function on.timer
   if global_flags.is_paused
      global_flags.is_paused = nil
   end

end

Simply inside of all your events, make it so once the global flag is set to a non-nil value, the event execution ends and don't allow them to be triggered by starting all code within the blocks with a "if global_flags.is_paused ~= nil" checker.  Simple as that