Can Lua 'Timeout" ?

Question

Lets say I am running a script and the game client waits for the script to be finished before it updates. Can Lua do somthing of a 'timeout'? Like, can i set a priority on the update so it leaves the script to do the update and then after words could it go back to where it was in the script?

Answer 1

You can also set a count hook with a suitable count for timeout and abort execution of the script in the hook.

Answer 2

Lua uses collaborative multithreading, so the script must know how long it has taken before it passes control back to the caller. Its not hard to figure out how long it has run using os.time and getting the difference. In some cases this might be more difficult, but if the script is a loop it shouldn't be hard. Once you've figured out that you've run for too long, do a coroutine.yield() and when you want to resume the script, simply call lua_resume from your update loop.