ScriptRunner:signal_all_scripts

Sends a signal to every script owned by this ScriptRunner. This will stop all script threads that previously called Thread:stop_on for this signal, and resume execution of all threads that were waiting on this signal via Thread:wait_for.

Additional arguments passed to this function will be received by threads that were waiting on this signal.

See also: Script:signal.

Usage

script_runner:signal_all_scripts(signal_name, ...)

Arguments

Name	Type	Description
signal_name	string	Signal to emit.
...	any	Values that will be received by threads waiting for the signal.

Examples

local ecs = crystal.ECS:new();
local entity = ecs:spawn(crystal.Entity);
local script_runner = entity:add_component(crystal.ScriptRunner);

entity:add_script(function(self)
  self:stop_on("bye");
  while true do
    local name = self:wait_for("greet");
    print("Hello " .. name);
  end
end);

script_runner:update(0); -- Runs the script until the `wait_for` statement
entity:signal_all_scripts("greet", "Alvina"); -- prints "Hello Alvina"
entity:signal_all_scripts("greet", "Tarkus"); -- prints "Hello Tarkus"
entity:signal_all_scripts("bye");
entity:signal_all_scripts("greet", "Ricard"); -- nothing is printed