Task

A Roblox-compatible task library for Luwow-Project.

This repository is not stand-alone. You must build it externally from within another repository like https://github.com/Luwow-Project/Release

Project Overview

This project contains the sources for Luwow Task library and the executable runscriptwithtasklib.

This library requires the external library libuv as a dependency, add it to your CMakeLists.txt file using LIBUV_ROOT.

Library Documentation

task.spawn(functionOrThread: (...any) -> (any) | thread, ...) -> thread

Resumes a function/thread through the scheduler immediately.

task.defer(functionOrThread: (...any) -> (any) | thread, ...) -> thread

Resumes a function/thread through the scheduler in the next resumption cycle.

task.delay(t: number, functionOrThread: (...any) -> (any) | thread, ...) -> thread

Resumes a function/thread through the scheduler after t seconds.

task.wait(t: number?) -> number

Yields the thread for t seconds, and returns the actual elapsed time.

task.cancel(th: thread)

Cancels a pending thread, preventing it from being resumed manually or by the scheduler.