When working with coroutines, you can also forgo the use of the coroutine object and instead use a wrapper function. Such a wrapper function will resume a particular coroutine when it is called and will return only the yielded values. You can do this using coroutine.wrap ():
While that would solve your problem, being able to coroutine.yield () “for real” in roblox threads would be nice. Could be something like coroutine.ryield () or whatever.
coroutine.yield - Yields the current Coroutine this is called inside and passes the arguments given to the next time it’s resumed, this will not continue until resumed. The use of this within a while loop could mean that you can use the coroutine repetitively without it becoming dead.
-- Call resume for the first time, which runs the function from the beginning local success, result = coroutine.resume(taskCoro, ...) print(success, result) --> true, second (task halted because it returned "second") During the lifetime of the coroutine, you can call coroutine.status () to inspect its status:
-- Call resume for the first time, which runs the function from the beginning local success, result = coroutine.resume(taskCoro, ...) print(success, result) --> true, second (task halted because it returned "second") During the lifetime of the coroutine, you can call coroutine.status () to inspect its status: The coroutine is waiting to be resumed.
Yields the thread (or thread pool) of the current coroutine dispatcher to other coroutine to run if possible. This suspending function is cancellable.
Wrapping Coroutines Such a wrapper function will resume a particular coroutine when it is called and will return only the yielded values. You can do this using coroutine. wrap() : -- Create coroutine and return a wrapper function that resumes it.
You can't instantly kill a thread, the best you can do is to yield a coroutine and then delete all references to that coroutine once you decided you don't need it anymore. Lua's garbage collection will collect it once it notices that it isn't active anymore and that's the end of the line.
You have to use coroutine. create() to use coroutine. resume() and coroutine. yield() .
To stop a coroutine from "inside" the coroutine, you cannot simply "return" as you would to leave early from an ordinary function. Instead, you use yield break . You can also force all coroutines launched by the script to halt before finishing.
pcall() is a short for Protected Call, if the code inside of this function have an error it will yield until attached function run without any issues and won't stop the rest of the script.
Coroutines are blocks of Lua code which are created within Lua, and have their own flow of control like threads. Only one coroutine ever runs at a time, and it runs until it activates another coroutine, or yields (returns to the coroutine that invoked it).
Coroutines are computer program components that generalize subroutines for non-preemptive multitasking, by allowing execution to be suspended and resumed. Coroutines are well-suited for implementing familiar program components such as cooperative tasks, exceptions, event loops, iterators, infinite lists and pipes.
Disable the script and then enable it again. if you want it to be restarting over and over. You can enable and disable a script from the script, it is able to disable itself, and reenable itself.
There’s other coroutine methods which can be of use to you such as: 1 coroutine.running - Returns the current running Coroutine or nil if there isn’t any (thread object.) 2 coroutine.status - Returns the status of the passed Coroutine, can be either one of the statuses earlier in the tutorial. 3 coroutine.yield - Yields the current Coroutine this is called inside and passes the arguments given to the next time it’s resumed, this will not continue until resumed. The use of this within a while loop could mean that you can use the coroutine repetitively without it becoming dead. An example of usage:
The Computer Science meaning of a thread is line of execution usually a component of a process that can be managed by a scheduler, and in Roblox the Task Scheduler, which are run on the CPU. When the thread yields, usually in Roblox due to a wait (), the thread will not continue until it’s woken back up by the scheduler.
If a Coroutine was to error, it would not affect the main thread. coroutine.resume returns just like a pcall would with if it succeeded and the response which is either an error message or the return value of that function.
These are non preemptive and can only be stopped by the Coroutined code, nothing from the outside can stop a Coroutine from running. Keep in mind when any Coroutine or the main thread calls a blocking operation the entire program cannot continue and therefore it can’t be a real alternative to multi-threading.