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<viztask>.waitDirector
Wait for a director function to complete
| <viztask>.waitDirector( |
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| func |
| *args |
| ) |
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func
The director function to execute
*args
Optional arguments to pass to director function
Remarks
This command will create a Condition object that will wait for the specified director function to complete.
The yielded command returns a
viz.Data object with the following information about the condition:
returnValue | The return value of the director function |
Return Value
viztask.Condition object
Example
import viztask
#Define a function that returns the last line of a text file
def getLast():
file = open('data.txt', 'r')
for line in file:
last = line
file.close()
return last
def fileTask():
yield viztask.waitKeyDown(' ')
viz.logNotice('Started file operation')
#Execute the getLast function in a separate thread
#and wait for it to complete and return some data
data = yield viztask.waitDirector(getLast)
viz.logNotice('Finished file operation, last line is: ',data.returnValue)
viztask.schedule( fileTask() )
