Actors

Documentation of actor-related Synapse Z environment functions

getactors

table<Actor/ActorProxy> getactors()

returns a list of all loaded actors

run_on_actor

void run_on_actor(actor: <Actor/ActorProxy>, source: string, ...)

runs the specified code on specified actor, additionaly passing arguments

check_parallel

bool check_parallel()

returns whenever the current thread is parallel

NOTE: if FFlagDebugRunParallelLuaOnMainThread is true, it would always return false, please account for this using getfflag.

get_current_actor

<Actor/ActorProxy/nil> get_current_actor()

returns the actor the thread is currently running on, returns nil if running on main global state

create_comm_channel

<SynCommChannel/(string, SynCommChannel)> create_comm_channel(name: string?)

returns a new communication channel if name is provided, else returns a random generated name and a new communication channel with the following prototype:

get_comm_channel

SynCommChannel get_comm_channel(name: string)

returns the communication channel by name, errors if doesnt exist