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Started by Mitchfizz05, 31 August 2013 - 12:43 AM

Mitchfizz05 #1

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119 posts

Location Adelaide, Australia

Posted 31 August 2013 - 02:43 AM

Hello.
I'm looking to make a program that runs in the background and still allows you to use the computer like normal.
How can I do this?

parallel.waitForAny(myFunction, ???)

Zudo #2

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1114 posts

Location UK

Posted 31 August 2013 - 02:54 AM

How about


function runShell()
 os.run({}, "shell")
end

function myProgram()
 os.run({["print"] = function() end, ["write"] = function() end}, "myProgram")
end

parallel.waitForAny(runShell, myProgram)