spawn

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Description

Description:

Starts running a new script (SQF). Additional arguments are passed in local _this variable. The new script is running in scheduled environment, spawn does not wait for it to be done, instead spawn returns a Script handle.

Syntax

Syntax:

Script = arguments spawn code

Parameters:

arguments: Any Value

code: Code

Return Value:

Script

Examples

Example 1:

[] spawn { player globalChat "This is run in parallel."; };

Example 2:

There is no guarantee that spawned scripts will be executed in the same order they spawned: for "_i" from 0 to 100 do { _null = _i spawn { diag_log _this } } Result: 51,1,2...49,50,0,52,53...100

Additional Information

See also:

callexecVMexeccompilepreprocessFileLineNumberspreprocessFileterminatescriptDone

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Notes

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Notes

Posted on 5 March, 2009

Kronzky

spawn cannot call other local functions on the same scope as itself.
It can, however, call other global functions:

_addOne = {TST=TST+1};
TST_addOne = {TST=TST+1};

_add = {
    TST=TST+1;
    player sidechat format["added: %1",TST];
    [] call _addOne;
    player sidechat format["called local: %1",TST];
    [] call TST_addOne;
    player sidechat format["called global: %1",TST];
};
TST=0;
[] call _add;
[] spawn _add;

• The call of _addOne from the spawned function does not do anything.