Multiple threads from one file?

[Astusvis]

Can't you put the bulk of the code in a big loop instead?

me == stupid

EDIT: Why won't this code start the thread? The thread code itself has no problems in it.

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for i=1, threads do
	thread[i] = {thread = love.thread.newThread("genimage" .. i, "genimage.lua"), image = nil, depth = nil}
	thread[i].thread:start()
	print("Created/started thread no. " .. i)
end

[TechnoCat]

EDIT: Why won't this code start the thread? The thread code itself has no problems in it.

Seems to me that is exactly the problem. Sounds like your thread code crashes.

[bartbes]

It seems you are still working with love.image at the same time in multiple threads, which won't work in 0.7.2.

Also, killing, regardless of the lua code has finished, can have very bad effects, I've had love crash because of it, or worse, in a deadlock.

[Astusvis]

Oh, I forgot that I'd removed the any image references and used TSerial along with a table to just gather pixel data.
I've also put it into a loop.

The thing is the code isn't even being run; I put a print("Thread loaded") at the top and the console was blank.

[Boolsheet]

LÖVE pushes the Lua error to "error" if something in the script went wrong.
Get it with thread:receive("error").

[TechnoCat]

LÖVE pushes the Lua error to "error" if something in the script went wrong.
Get it with thread:receive("error").

Inserting into the wiki. Not really sure where!

[Astusvis]

Woah, that helped alot.
Do threads happen to be copied over to a different folder before being run, by any chance? Because that MUST be happening.

Basically, the thread of genimage.lua can't find TSerial.lua, although main.lua can...

Also, I'd put another reference to the error retrieving in Thread:reveive()

[bartbes]

You have to load love.filesystem first.

[Astusvis]

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[Robin]

I'm not sure what the threads do, but aren't they in a loop? And if they're producing information, where is it kept?