Re: Pausing and continueing a script

[Jack Christensen <jack@...>]

Thanks for the link Tom. Threads and coroutines worked out fine. What I 
do is start the script function in a thread in the host program. All the 
commands are c++ functions. Any that need to pause the script yield. 
When the command is finished, the host program calls resume. Simple and 
transparent once its set up. Works great.

Jack


Thomas Wrensch wrote:

> > I'm using Lua for game scripting. I'd like to have the script call a
> > command, pause execution until it is finished, then resume at the next
> > statement.
> >
> > For example for an NPC:
> > PickupWeapon()
> > EquipWeapon()
> > MoveTo(40,40)
> > GuardLocation()
> >
> > Obviously I don't want it equipping a weapon before it has picked it up.
> > > From studying the documentation I think coroutines and threads are what
> > I should be looking into, but I wanted to ask before I head done a
> > possibly wrong approach.
> >    
>
> There's been a lot of discussion on-and-off on this subject, and there are
> several approaches using coroutines that work fairly well. One that I
> played with a little bit was a simple scheduler written in Lua that can do
> some of this. Check:
>
>  http://lua-users.org/wiki/SituationScheduler
>
> Having said that I should warn you that I am NOT a game developer. I wrote
> this as a way of scripting simulations. I *think* it will work well for
> games.
>
>   - Tom
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