Bypassing The Wait For Rednet.receive()

Hey guys! I am having an issue with my program. The computer is waiting for the responce message back from the turtle, so it never continues! How can I pass the wait time? Would a try catch work? Thanks! If you need the code tell me and I will upload around 5PM EST.

You should upload the code. You'll probably want to have a basic event handling loop that looks for rednet_message events as well.

Well.. You do know that the rednet.receive() has a timeout right?
EXAMPLE

local timeout = 5

id, msg = rednet.receive(timeout)
if id == nil then
	print("You haven't received any messages D:")
else
	print(id .. ":" .. msg)
end

But as mentioned by Lyqyd you'll probably want to use basic event handling
EXAMPLE

while true do
local evt, id, msg = os.pullEvent()
	if evt == "rednet_message" then
		print(id .. ":" .. msg)
	end
end

Hellkid98, on 21 November 2013 - 02:25 PM said:

Well.. You do know that the rednet.receive() has a timeout right?
EXAMPLE

local timeout = 5

id, msg = rednet.receive(timeout)
if id == nil then
	print("You haven't received any messages D:")
else
	print(id .. ":" .. msg)
end

But as mentioned by Lyqyd you'll probably want to use basic event handling
EXAMPLE

while true do
local evt, id, msg = os.pullEvent()
	if evt == "rednet_message" then
		print(id .. ":" .. msg)
	end
end

Thank you very much, I did not know that rednet had a time out function. I have terrible internet where I live and just learned about rednet, it is tons of fun! I +1'd you, thank you for your time. ~Papa Beans

Also just as a side point. There is not try/catch in Lua.

theoriginalbit, on 21 November 2013 - 08:41 PM said:

Also just as a side point. There is not try/catch in Lua.

Thanks xP too much VB haha.