No that would be a bad idea since flash is single threaded.
In pseudo code, Flash runs in an endless loop of this kind:
for (;;) {
executeFrameScript();
renderFrame();
}
If you start doing some cycle you make it be stuck in "executeFrameScript()"
and never render a frame before you let it go.
There's a safety precaution that doesn't let Flash be stuck in there for
more than a few seconds since it might be bug or well it's just plain bad
user experience to run lengthy code and leave the GUI frozen.
This is why you have to use async operations such as callbacks or make your
loop use setInterval or onEnterFrame to do the looping part (this allows
Flash to render the graphics part).
Regards, Stan Vassilev
----- Original Message -----
From: "Morrisy Van" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 9:23 AM
Subject: [Flashcoders] while(true) and infinite loop... :(
hi list,
been doing some flex2 AS3 socket programming recently,
just wondering could i use some code like this (as we
do in java):
[code]
String line;
for(;;) {
line = in.readLine( );
if (line == null) throw new IOException("Unexpected
EOF");
if (line.equals(".")) break;
msgs.add(line);
}
[/code]
or
[code]
while(true){
//do some socket operation....
}
[/code]
whenever I ran code like this, flash player went into
infinite loop and crashes.
so is there any way to wait until the socket finishes
it's job and the code went on ?
btw, I know there are onSocketData and onProgress for
socket, but by using them i would have to split my
code into chunks and it's gonna be hard to maintain.
thanks.
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