Added ThreaderUpdater

Added the threadedupdater module and updated the all.lua to reflect the new additions!

multi/all.lua

@@ -15,3 +15,4 @@ require("multi.threading.loop")
 require("multi.threading.process")
 require("multi.threading.step")
 require("multi.threading.tstep")
+require("multi.threading.updater")

multi/threading/all.lua

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 require("multi.threading.step")
 require("multi.threading.tstep")
+require("multi.threading.updater")
 require("multi.threading.alarm")
 require("multi.threading.loop")
 require("multi.threading.event")

multi/threading/updater.lua

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+require("multi.threading")
+function multi:newThreadedUpdater(name,skip)
+	local c=self:newTBase()
+	c.Type='updaterThread'
+	c.pos=1
+	c.skip=skip or 1
+	function c:Resume()
+		self.rest=false
+	end
+	function c:Pause()
+		self.rest=true
+	end
+	c.OnUpdate=self.OnMainConnect
+	c.rest=false
+	c.updaterate=0
+	c.restRate=.75
+	multi:newThread(name,function(ref)
+		while true do
+			if c.rest then
+				thread.sleep(c.restRate) -- rest a bit more when a thread is paused
+			else
+				for i=1,#c.func do
+					c.func[i](c)
+				end
+				c.pos=c.pos+1
+				thread.skip(c.skip)
+			end
+		end
+	end)
+	self:create(c)
+	return c
+end