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Offline whiskers75

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How to create a background thread in Lua?
« on: January 04, 2013, 07:11:08 AM »
How do I create a thread, like battery bench, that runs in the background until cancelled using the Lua API?
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Offline wodz

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Re: How to create a background thread in Lua?
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2013, 07:45:51 AM »
I think that is not possible. Lua engine runs as plugin itself.
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Offline torne

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Re: How to create a background thread in Lua?
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2013, 11:02:34 AM »
Battery bench is a background *plugin*, not just a background thread; the plugin itself has to be able to run in the background. The plugin in this case is Lua, not your Lua program, and the Lua plugin isn't a background plugin yet. You would need to modify the Lua plugin code to make it able to go into the background.
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