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Posted 26 July 2012 - 08:59 PM

I don't know if background processes would be easy or not but.. what I want is, in my OS, while operating it, it is always running rednet.receive(). Is that possible to do so?

Cranium #2

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 09:04 PM

If you check the APIs for the "parallel", you might just find what you're looking for.

brett122798 #3

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 09:07 PM

craniumkid22, on 26 July 2012 - 09:04 PM said:
If you check the APIs for the "parallel", you might just find what you're looking for.

Hmm.. it says you can multitask but I don't understand how to use it.. can you give me a code example?

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 09:11 PM

Sorry, never used it myself, so can't… Someone else will probably help out though.

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 09:20 PM

I've never used it but I think u need two functions and then put parallel.waitForAny(func1, func2)

also, can I help with ur os coz I made one and it kinda failed and I want to have a new start

brett122798 #6

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 09:42 PM

awsumben13, on 26 July 2012 - 09:20 PM said:
I've never used it but I think u need two functions and then put parallel.waitForAny(func1, func2)

also, can I help with ur os coz I made one and it kinda failed and I want to have a new start

Want me to make a server and you could join?

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Posted 27 July 2012 - 10:55 AM

http://www.computercraft.info/forums2/index.php?/topic/2030-tutorial-parallel-api/ :)/>/>