How can i cancel and/or pause a thread?

[Brodycoolsquid (BadOnMyEnd)]

Another post because i’m in a dev mood i think. In my fighting game, players can cancel their moves into other moves, and when performing a move, if they’re hit by someone else, their current move is cancelled and they enter hitstun, basic fighting game law stuff. But i also have supers in my game which upon activation, will freeze / pause nearby players and eventually resume whatever they were doing. I’m wondering if there’s a certain way to cancel threads? I know theres stuff like task.cancel() and coroutines but im wondering which one in specific i should use.

[Downrest (Down)]

task.cancel() are for threads made with the task library (task.spawn(), task.defer()), coroutine.close() are for threads made with standard coroutines (coroutine.create()).

@tnavarts

The difference is really about context:

• task.cancel is meant to be used with coroutines managed by the Roblox task scheduler such as those created by task.spawn and task.delay and is guaranteed to interact properly with the task scheduler.
• coroutine.close is meant to be used with coroutines that you’re managing yourself so it comes with the additional return value that you may need to implement whatever custom thing you’re building with coroutines.

There may be a lot of overlap between them in practice because the Roblox task scheduler is based on coroutines, but the context is different enough that it makes sense for them to be separate.

TL;DR:

• If you created a coroutine with task.spawn use task.cancel on it.
• If you created a coroutine with coroutine.create use coroutine.close on it.