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- New Objects (Flexbox, Graph, Treeview) - Pluginsystem to add/remove functionality - Reworked the entire Object system, instead of one big Object Class we have multiple classes: Object, VisualObject, ChangeableObject - Instead of one big Frame Class we have multiple Frame Classes: BaseFrame, Frame, MovableFrame, ScrollableFrame, MonitorFrame, Flexbox - Removed the Animation Object, and added a animation plugin instead - Removed the Graphic Object and merged it's functionality with the image object - Updated currently existing objects
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Threads are being executed simultaneously.
start
starts a new thread and executes the function
Parameters:
functionthe function which should be executed
Returns:
objectThe object in use
Usage:
- Starts a new thread
local mainFrame = basalt.createFrame()
local aThread = mainFrame:addThread()
local function randomThreadFunction()
while true do
basalt.debug("Thread is active")
os.sleep(1) -- a sleep/coroutine.yield() or pullEvent is required otherwise we will never come back to the main program (error)
end
end
aThread:start(randomThreadfunction)
you are also able to start threads via xml:
basalt.setVariable("myThread", function() while true do os.sleep(1) end end)
<thread thread="myThread" start="true"/>
stop
stops the thread
Returns:
objectThe object in use
Usage:
- Stops the current running thread by clicking on a button
local mainFrame = basalt.createFrame()
local aThread = mainFrame:addThread()
local function randomThreadFunction()
while true do
basalt.debug("Thread is active")
os.sleep(1) -- a sleep/coroutine.yield() or pullEvent is required otherwise we will never come back to the main program (error)
end
end
aThread:start(randomThreadfunction)
local aButton = mainFrame:addButton():setText("Stop Thread"):onClick(function() aThread:stop() end)
getStatus
gets the current thread status
Returns:
stringcurrent status - ("running", "normal", "suspended", "dead")
Usage:
local mainFrame = basalt.createFrame()
local aThread = mainFrame:addThread()
basalt.debug(aThread:getStatus())