Lua:Class:Thread
Thread class: (Inheritance: Object)
The thread class executes the given function in another thread using the systems thread mechanism
Creation
- createThread(function(Thread,...), ...)
- returns the Thread class object
Properties
- Name : string
- This name will be shown when the thread terminated abnormally
- Finished : boolean
- true if the thread has reached the end. Do not rely on this if the thread is freeOnTerminate(true) (which is the default)
- Terminated : function(timer)
- true if the Terminate method has been called
Methods
- freeOnTerminate(state) :
- When set to true the thread object will free itself when the function ends (default=true)
Note: Use this only from inside the thread function as the thread might have already terminated and freed itself when called
- synchronize(function(thread,...), ...)
- given function's return value
- Usually for GUI access. Called from inside the thread
- This will cause the thread to get the main thread to execute the given function and wait for it to finish.
- Returns the return value of the given function
- waitfor() :
- Waits for the given thread to finish (Not recommended to call this from inside the thread itself)
- suspend()
- Suspend the thread's execution
- resume() :
- Resume the thread;s executionmm
- terminate()
- Tells the thread it should terminate. The Terminated property will become true
Examples
local thread = createThread(function(timer)
local i = 0
while i < 100 do
i = i + 1
print(i)
sleep(100)
end
return 50
end)
-- run given function after a delay
local function delayed(func, delay)
if type(func) ~= 'function' then return end
if type(delay) ~= 'number' then delay = 1000 end
local t = createTimer()
t.Interval = delay
t.OnTimer = function(t)
-- only run once by destroying the timer object
t.destroy()
func()
end
end
delayed(function()
print('suspending')
thread.suspend()
delayed(function()
print('resuming')
thread.resume()
end, 3500)
end, 5000)
