A small library to make handling threads in Love easier. Combines the concepts of a thread and two channels for input and output into a single object.
Call with a function to run it in a thread. The function will be passed a table
of arguments containing at a minimum, input and output channels, and fn
(which is itself as a FileData object).
local Filament = require "filament"
local thread = Filament(function(args) args.output:push("A threaded hi!") end)
thread\start!
print(thread\demand!) -- waits for a message to be pushed, and grabs it
Alternately, pass an options table to add options to be passed along, and/or specify modules to be loaded:
fn: The function to run. By itself, its the same thing as calling with just that function.modules: A comma-separated list of modules to require before running the specified function.input: A channel to be used to input data to the thread.output: A channel the thread will use to output data.
And finally, to have a thread run immediately, you can call Filament.run()
instead of creating a filament object and calling start on it.