How do you "wait" without crashing the game client.

[algritz]

I want to process my mailbox, then take the attachments and finally delete the email.

Two of these actions interacts with the global command queue.

If I want to make sure everything is processed in order, I need to be able to wait after the queue. As such I've created a small function that loops while the queue becomes available.

local function wait_for_queue()
	local queue_is_not_ready = Inspect.Queue.Status("global")
	while queue_is_not_ready == true do
		queue_is_not_ready = Inspect.Queue.Status("global")
	end
end

Unfortunately when I get in this "loop" the CPU time gets eaten entirely and crashes the Game client.

My question is how do you get to wait for the Queue without crashing the game client?

[Myrroddin]

Answered here.

[algritz]

Originally Posted by Myrroddin

Answered here.

Saw the reply, thanks !

[Zoc]

I'm not able to post on Rift forums (Rift Lite, etc. - willing to change that very soon).

local queueStatus = false
local function QueueStatus()
    queueStatus = Inspect.Queue.Status("global")
    if queueStatus then return end -- global queue is still backlogged, var is true so exit out
    
    queueStatus = false
end

table.insert(Event.Queue.Status, {QueueStatus, "MyAddon", "Queue Status"})

local commandOne = false
local commandTwo = false
local commandThree = false
function MyAddon:DoCommands()
    if not commandOne and not queueStatus then
        command.blah1
        commandOne = true
    elseif not commandTwo and not queueStatus then
        command.blah2
        commandTwo = true
    elseif not commandThree and not queueStatus then
        command.blah3
        commandThree = true
    end
    
    commandOne, commandTwo, commandThree = false, false, false
end

I'm not able to understand the concept post. I can't find anything related to "Event.Queue.Status", which appears here:

table.insert(Event.Queue.Status, {QueueStatus, "MyAddon", "Queue Status"})

Anytime I try to run DoCommands(), it never goes past the first step.

What I'm willing to do is, wait until a Command.Item.Move() is complete, then run 2 functions.

Ideas how I can do that ?

Thanks in advance!

[algritz]

Originally Posted by Zoc

I'm not able to understand the concept post. I can't find anything related to "Event.Queue.Status", which appears here:

table.insert(Event.Queue.Status, {QueueStatus, "MyAddon", "Queue Status"})

Anytime I try to run DoCommands(), it never goes past the first step.

What I'm willing to do is, wait until a Command.Item.Move() is complete, then run 2 functions.

Ideas how I can do that ?

Thanks in advance!

Look at this thread, it helped me a LOT.

http://forums.riftgame.com/beta-addo...low-error.html

I ended up combining both a "Queue" and a "thread" manager.

[Zoc]

Thank you!

With the info in the post you provided me, I created the LibCoroutine.

It's very early and the code can be considered Alpha quality. It's included with zBag (Alpha4), in case you want to take a look on how I implemented it.

Suggestions / improvements are welcome