How to resume roaming after MaintainFocus?

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So, I have an NPC that will give focus to the player when a button is pressed. This is working fine with the code below:

OnConvoButtonPressed(Agent : agent) : void=
        Print("Convo button pressed!")
         # When a character spawns, have them focus on the first player in the playspace
         if:
            FortCharacter := SavedAgent?.GetFortCharacter[]
            FocusInterface := FortCharacter.GetFocusInterface[]
            #GuardInterface := FortCharacter.GetFortGuardActions[]
            NPCBehaviorInterface := SavedAgent?.GetNPCBehavior[]
            PlayerToFocus := GetPlayspace().GetPlayers()[0]
        then:
            Print("Found the NPC to focus with!")
            spawn{FocusInterface.MaintainFocus(PlayerToFocus)}

How do I tell the NPC to stop focusing on the player and go back to roaming around as it was by default?

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Hi! According to the docs, MaintainFocus will never complete unless interrupted. So, you need to run it in an async context and ensure that something else cancels the focus.

For instance:

race {
    FocusInterface.MaintainFocus(PlayerToFocus)
    Sleep(3.0)
}

This will end the focus after 3 seconds. You could also await an event, such as the player leaving an area—it really depends on how you want to cancel the focus.