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:
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[] 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
- Groups:
- Uncategorised
Notes
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.
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