Channel
Available since LÖVE 0.9.0
This type is not supported in earlier versions.
An object which can be used to send and receive data between different threads.
Constructors
| love.thread.getChannel | Creates or retrieves a named thread channel. | 0.9.0 | |
| love.thread.newChannel | Creates a new unnamed thread channel. | 0.9.0 |
Functions
| Channel:clear | Clears all the messages in the Channel queue. | 0.9.0 | |
| Channel:demand | Wait for and retrieve the value of a Channel message. | 0.9.0 | |
| Channel:getCount | Retrieves the number of messages in the Channel queue. | 0.9.0 | |
| Channel:hasRead | Gets whether a pushed value has been popped or otherwise removed from the Channel. | 11.0 | |
| Channel:peek | Receive a message from a thread Channel, but leave it in the queue. | 0.9.0 | |
| Channel:performAtomic | Executes the specified function atomically with respect to this Channel. | 0.10.0 | |
| Channel:pop | Retrieve the value of a Channel message. | 0.9.0 | |
| Channel:push | Send a message to a thread Channel. | 0.9.0 | |
| Channel:supply | Send a message to a thread Channel and wait for a thread to accept it. | 0.9.0 | |
| Object:release | Immediately destroys the object's Lua reference. | 11.0 | |
| Object:type | Gets the type of the object as a string. | ||
| Object:typeOf | Checks whether an object is of a certain type. |
Supertypes
See Also
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