How does one pause and resume a thread (task.spawn)

[Puwgen]

okay
so this has been bothering me for quite a while
ive been trying to figure out how to pause a thread,

task.spawn is able to resume/start threads
but what kind of function makes the thread pause
task.cancel completely mauls & murders the thread, so im not satisfied with that

local Thread = task.spawn(function()
	for i = 1,10,1 do
		warn(i)
		task.wait(1.5)
	end
end)
task.wait(2)
print("pausing thread")
task.cancel(Thread)
task.wait(2)
print("resuming thread")
task.spawn(Thread)

[EthicalEye]

This documentation will be useful for you: coroutine | Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub

[EthicalEye]

coroutine.close() closes threads

[Mystxry12 (Mystxry)]

afaik you can only suspend the thread inside it and doing it from outside is doable but kinda hacky

whats the use case anyways since threads arent expensive (considering u arent doing dumb shit inside it)

[Puwgen]

thanks but i still dont get it how do you pause a thread, make it stop and then make it work again

[Mystxry12 (Mystxry)]

heres the hacky way

local suspend
local thread = task.spawn(function()
    suspend = function()
        coroutine.yield()
    end
	for i = 1,10,1 do
		warn(i)
		task.wait(1.5)
	end
end)
print("pausing thread")
suspend()
task.wait(2)
print("resuming thread")
task.spawn(thread)

[Puwgen]

nope, doesnt work at all

god i hate the character limit

[EthicalEye]

How about this one:

local Stop = false

local thread = coroutine.create(function()
	
	for i=1, 1000 do
		if(Stop) then
			coroutine.yield()
		end
		
		print(i)
		
		task.wait(1)
	end
end)


print("starting thread")

coroutine.resume(thread)



task.wait(3)

Stop = true

print("thread stopped")



task.wait(3)

Stop = false

print("Thread resumed")

coroutine.resume(thread)

[Puwgen]

YEAHHHHHH now this is what i want