Channel

Available since LÖVE 0.9.0

This type is not supported in earlier versions.

An object which can be used to send and receive data between 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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