Class TaskScheduler

Provides the means to schedule tasks on a background thread or the main thread. Also allows for creation of co-routines from classes that do not inherit from MonoBehaviour.

This is thread safe, through it must be constructed on the main thread.

Inheritance

Object

TaskScheduler

TaskSchedulerThreaded

TaskSchedulerWebGL

Namespace: Unity.GameBackend.CloudCode.Scheduler

Syntax

public abstract class TaskScheduler : MonoBehaviour

Methods

IsMainThread()

Determines whether the current thread is the main thread.

Declaration

public abstract bool IsMainThread()

Returns

Type	Description
Boolean	Whether or not this thread is the main thread.

ScheduleBackgroundTask(Action)

Schedules a new task on a background thread.

Declaration

public abstract void ScheduleBackgroundTask(Action task)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
Action	task	The task that should be executed on a background thread.

ScheduleMainThreadTask(Action)

Schedules a new task on the main thread. The task will be executed during the next update.

Declaration

public abstract void ScheduleMainThreadTask(Action task)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
Action	task	The task that should be executed on the main thread.

ScheduleOrExecuteOnMain(Action)

Executes immediately if on main thread else queue on main thread for next update.

Declaration

public void ScheduleOrExecuteOnMain(Action action)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
Action	action	The task that should be executed on the main thread.