help required for Wait For Seconds / yield

Hi,
so far I've been pretty decent doing c# code in Unity, but this 1 stupid function WaitForSeconds, I cannot get to work, been trying this close to 2 hours now...
After searching the forums and google, I still can't figure out what's the problem.
I have the following piece of code, which is giving the following error: "Parser Error: a get or set accessor expected".
In all fairness I have no clue what a yield does at all, but I hope someone can help me understand but mostly fix this.

Because it's a long class, here's the 2 functions that are related to the problem:

Code (CSharp):

1.     public void pauseWalking(){
2.                 stopWalking ();
3.         StartCoroutine("continueWalking");
4.  
5.         }
6.     public IEnumerator continueWalking{
7.         yield return new WaitForSeconds(3f);
8.         startWalking ();
9.     }

Any information is much appreciated, thanks so far.

 

There's more to the error message, and your code, than you're giving us. Don't expect magical solutions from a tiny piece of an error message and 9 lines of a "very long" script.

And my favorite advice:
If you don't know what a particular line of code does, you shouldn't be using it.

There is no shortage of documentation on the yield keyword in the world of Google.

 

Yield (hold on there lumpy) WaitForSeconds(wait this long before you continue).
As far as your error I am not sure but that is pretty much what Yield WaitForSeconds does.


is stopWalking another function or a variable?
if it is a variable I would think that the () after it instead of ; is the problem/

 

Your continueWalking function is lacking open/close parentheses.

 

@Kurt Dekker is right - you need to put a ()

If it still does not fix the error, can you post whats there in startWalking ?

 

To expand on that (not sure if it will work, try:

Code (CSharp):

1.    public void pauseWalking(){
2.                 stopWalking ();
3.         StartCoroutine(continueWalking());
4.         }
5.     public IEnumerator continueWalking(){
6.         yield return new WaitForSeconds(3f);
7.         startWalking ();
8.     }

 

omg, *insert many very bad cursewords here*, how did I miss that.
Guess I've been staring at it for to long at 2am
Many thanks to all though .

 

Just to clarify, StartCoroutine(string methodname) is still a valid function, and has tradeoffs with StartCoroutine(IEnumerator routine). It should have still worked had you kept the inital continueWalking call in quotes - you just needed to place the parenthesis around the actual method implementation.