standinonstilts

18 hours ago, payonel said:

local thread = require("thread")
local event = require("event")

local t = thread.create(function()
	while true do
		local pack = table.pack(event.pull("modem_message"))
		print(table.unpack(pack))
	end
end)

while true do
	local command = io.read()
	if command == "quit" then
		break
	end
end

t:kill()

 

my code was very close to yours. the only difference was that instead of creating a function inside the thread.create(), I created a seperate function named handleMessage() and called it as: 

local t1 = thread.create(handleMessage()) 

whenever I do this, I cannot type input, it's like the thread is blocking the io.read; but when you define the function inside thread.create() it allows me to read and print perfectly fine. Is there a reason for this or is it a bug?

my code:

local event = require("event")
local thread = require("thread")
local modem = component.modem

modem.open(77)

function handleMessage()
  while true do
    local pack = table.pack(event.pull("modem_message"))
    print(table.unpack(pack))
  end
end

local t1 = thread.create(handleMessage()) 

while true do
  local command = io.read()
  print(command)
end

t1:kill()

Did you ever find out? Because I'm trying to figure out the same thing

I want to create a server that pulls the modem_message event and prints to the console, but I also want the computer to be able to send messages (based on io.read()) while waiting for a message. I tried using threads, but I think I am using them wrong. As far as I know there is no thread.sleep() so I'm not sure how to suspend a thread for a short period of time so that you can still type messages, but still have that thread automatically continue. How would I go about doing this?