Thread

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Supported platforms: Platform android.pngPlatform ios.pngPlatform pc.pngPlatform mac.pngPlatform winrt.pngPlatform win32.png
Available since: 2018.10

Description

 Main Thread class that concurrent threads are created and managed by. From Threads plugin.
 

Methods

Thread.new Creates a new thread object.
Thread:setFunction Sets Lua function that thread will execute.
Thread:execute Starts/executes our thread
Thread:resume Resumes a thread that has been yielded.
Thread.yield Pauses executions of thread (only a valid call inside thread function).
Thread:status Returns current status of the thread.
Thread:getNumLogicalCores Returns number of logical cores on host machine.
Thread:requestTermination Sets a flag to terminate thread.
Thread.sendData Sends data for retrieval by main thread (only a valid call inside thread function).
Thread:fetchData Returns any data sent by thread sendData call.
Thread:getResults Get any results from thread.

Events

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Constants

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