Attempting to utilize task.spawn here, unfortunately I’m not quite sure how to properly use it, say I have the example code below.
function testing(player)
print(player.Name)
end
-- player gets defined here
task.spawn(testing(player)) -- attempt to spawn new thread with contents function
The code will toss an error saying:
invalid argument #1 to ‘spawn’ (function or thread expected)
so I’m doing something wrong here, can anyone clear it up for me?
You would essentially be trying to spawn a new thread of the returned value of the function, which in this case would be nil/nothing since the function returns nothing.
task.spawn takes a function (or a thread) as its parameter. If you have no function or thread to pass you can create and pass a blank one with their type constructor functions (function() end and coroutine.create() respectively).
Your code is attempting to pass an active function call as the parameter (which returns nothing; and thus, no end argument is given).
The real solution here is higher order function work- which basically means functions that manipulate other functions. You can do this in your example like so:
function Testing(Player) -- Higher order function which returns an inactive function.
return function()
print(Player.Name) -- Player is accessible as an upvalue.
end
end
task.spawn( Testing "Test" )
The alternative is to use an empty function argument:
local Player = nil -- Player should be accessible here in theory.
task.spawn(function() print(Player.Name) end)
This is just a problem with understanding Lua syntax, and you will get better at it with time.
Awesome, that really clears up quite a lot actually. Thankful that your answer hit all bases of the problem and clearly addressed the context of what I’m doing.
This method also works. Just put the arguments after the function instead of in parentheses.
task.spawn(testing, player)
Ah okay, good to know. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to pull up any good documentation on task.spawn