Channel

Available since LÖVE 0.9.0

This type is not supported in earlier versions.

A channel is a way to send and receive data to and from different threads.

Constructors

love.thread.getChannel	Creates or retrieves a named thread channel.	0.9.0
love.thread.newChannel	Creates a new unnamed thread channel.	0.9.0

Functions

Channel:clear	Clears all the messages in the Channel queue.	0.9.0
Channel:demand	Wait for and retrieve the value of a Channel message.	0.9.0
Channel:getCount	Retrieves the number of messages in the Channel queue.	0.9.0
Channel:hasRead	Gets whether a pushed value has been popped or otherwise removed from the Channel.	11.0
Channel:peek	Receive a message from a thread Channel, but leave it in the queue.	0.9.0
Channel:performAtomic	Executes the specified function atomically with respect to this Channel.	0.10.0
Channel:pop	Retrieve the value of a Channel message.	0.9.0
Channel:push	Send a message to a thread Channel.	0.9.0
Channel:supply	Send a message to a thread Channel and wait for a thread to accept it.	0.9.0
Object:release	Immediately destroys the object's Lua reference.	11.0
Object:type	Gets the type of the object as a string.
Object:typeOf	Checks whether an object is of a certain type.

Supertypes

• Object

See Also

• love.thread

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