Squirrel

Is there a way that I can retrieve the thread object that is currently executing? For example:

function thread1() {
    myThread = ::currentthread(); // Would give me "a" from below
}

a = ::newthread(thread1);
a.call();

I think I know of a way to do this in native code, but it would be nice if Squirrel supported something like this within the scripts.

no at the moment is not possible, however would be quite simple to add. I find this a bit dangerous because it would create a reference cycle, as the thread reference itself. If you do something of the kind you should always be careful tu use a weak reference to the thread.

Alberto

So I finally had a chance to get back to this idea. It took a bit of poking around in the Squirrel code to figure out how to do this nicely, but it appears that this works:

SQInteger sq_getcurrentthread(HSQUIRRELVM v) {
    HSQOBJECT threadObj;
    threadObj._type = OT_THREAD;
    threadObj._unVal.pThread = v;
   
    sq_pushobject(v, threadObj);
    sq_weakref(v, -1);
    return 1;
}

The end result being a weak reference to the current thread object. Does this seem like a safe way of achieving this functionality? The bit about manually creating the object to push worries me, but it's working in my test scenario.

Yep, that should work just fine.

Alberto