StartAsynchronousTask

StartAsynchronousTask is being phased out in favor of TaskResume, which was introduced experimentally in Version 11.2.

StartAsynchronousTask[task]

allows asynchronous evaluations from task after it has been stopped.

Details

Examples

Basic Examples  (1)

Start a download that takes some time to complete:

Stop progress updates:

Resume progress updates:

Wolfram Research (2012), StartAsynchronousTask, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/StartAsynchronousTask.html.

Text

Wolfram Research (2012), StartAsynchronousTask, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/StartAsynchronousTask.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2012. "StartAsynchronousTask." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/StartAsynchronousTask.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2012). StartAsynchronousTask. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/StartAsynchronousTask.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_startasynchronoustask, author="Wolfram Research", title="{StartAsynchronousTask}", year="2012", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/StartAsynchronousTask.html}", note=[Accessed: 22-February-2025 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2025_startasynchronoustask, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={StartAsynchronousTask}, year={2012}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/StartAsynchronousTask.html}, note=[Accessed: 22-February-2025 ]}