Bomb Bloke: Also now handles answers to rednet.lookup() requests.

2014-06-06T06:33:50Z

Also now handles answers to rednet.lookup() requests.

Bomb Bloke: Created page with "{{lowercase}} {{Function |name=rednet.run |api=rednet |returns=Nothing. |addon=ComputerCraft |desc=Automatically started within a co-routine by [[computer..."

2014-02-24T01:19:02Z

Created page with "{{lowercase}} {{Function |name=rednet.run |api=rednet |returns=Nothing. |addon=ComputerCraft |desc=Automatically started within a co-routine by [[computer..."

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{{Function
|name=rednet.run
|api=rednet
|returns=Nothing.
|addon=ComputerCraft
|desc=Automatically started within a [[Coroutine_(type)|co-routine]] by [[computer]]s / [[turtle]]s whenever they boot (regardless as to whether they have [[modem]]s available or not), this function constantly waits for [[Modem_message_(event)|modem_message]] events to appear within the event queue and generates corresponding [[Rednet_message_(event)|rednet_message]] events to go with them (which can then be "received" with [[Rednet.receive|rednet.receive()]], or pulled manually with [[Os.pullEvent|os.pullEvent()]]).<br><br>

As there need not be multiple instances of this function active, attempting to call it while it's already running (ie ''most any time'') results in an error being thrown ("rednet is already running").
|examples=
{{Example
|desc=Attempts to manually start the rednet event listener.
|code=rednet.run()
|output=An error stating "rednet is already running" (as this function is started automatically during each computer's / turtle's startup process).
}}
}}

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 |returns=Nothing.
 |addon=ComputerCraft
-|desc=Automatically started within a [[Coroutine_(type)|co-routine]] by [[computer]]s / [[turtle]]s  whenever they boot (regardless as to whether they have [[modem]]s available or not), this function constantly waits for [[Modem_message_(event)|modem_message]] events to appear within the event queue and generates corresponding [[Rednet_message_(event)|rednet_message]] events to go with them (which can then be "received" with [[Rednet.receive|rednet.receive()]], or pulled manually with [[Os.pullEvent|os.pullEvent()]]).<br><br>
+|desc=Automatically started within a [[Coroutine_(type)|co-routine]] by [[bios.lua]] whenever a given system boots (regardless as to whether it has a [[modem]] available or not), this function continues to run in the background and constantly waits for [[Modem_message_(event)|modem_message]] events to appear within the event queue. On spotting them, it then generates corresponding [[Rednet_message_(event)|rednet_message]] events to go with them (which can then be "received" with [[Rednet.receive|rednet.receive()]], or pulled manually with [[Os.pullEvent|os.pullEvent()]]). As of ComputerCraft 1.6, this function also deals with responses to [[rednet.lookup|rednet.lookup()]] requests.<br><br>
 As there need not be multiple instances of this function active, attempting to call it while it's already running (ie ''most any time'') results in an error being thrown ("rednet is already running").
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 }}
 }}
 [[Category:API_Functions]]

Rednet.run - Revision history

Bomb Bloke: Also now handles answers to rednet.lookup() requests.

Bomb Bloke: Created page with "{{lowercase}} {{Function |name=rednet.run |api=rednet |returns=Nothing. |addon=ComputerCraft |desc=Automatically started within a co-routine by [[computer..."