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Vijilante
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Joined: 18 Nov 2001
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 Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 10:51 pm
Idea[2.11]: #MAKETHREAD
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Or some such similar name. The parameters would be a script portion or alias and an optional name. That script portion would be tossed off into another thread and #MAKETHREAD would return immediately. The created thread would flagged as running, but wouldn't be executed until forced to by a switch or its turn came up normally. This would leave it the responsibility of the created thread to stop itself with #WAITFOR or #WAITSIGNAL if so desired.
Examples:
#ALIAS alias {#WAITSIGNAL startAlias;#ADD didAlias 1}
#MAKETHREAD alias HoldAlias
#MAKETHREAD {#WAITSIGNAL startAlias;#ADD didAlias 1}
#MAKETHREAD {#SHOW second line}
#SHOW first line
Displays:
first line
second line |
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Zugg
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Joined: 25 Sep 2000
Posts: 23379
Location: Colorado, USA
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Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 5:09 am
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Actually, the #THREAD command does this already:
#THREAD Name {commands to run in the background}
This will spawn a new thread to execute the commands, and then will continue immediately with the rest of the current script. Yeah, I need to document more, sorry. |
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Vijilante
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Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 2:40 pm
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I see it now. The quick reference for #THREAD shows it but the help doesn't. I will update that.
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