RE: [flexcoders] Equivalent to Thread.sleep()

Tracy Spratt 7 Mar 2005 18:30:10 -0000

Title: Equivalent to Thread.sleep()

As far as I know, this can’t be done. The flash player is single threaded, so nothing else happens ina timer loop, nothing will “return”. It seems like there should be a way to hack this, maybe using doLater() and setInterval(), but I have never heard of one.

What is your functional reason for not using the result event? Once I got used to async handling, using the ACT (asynchronous call token) pattern with the “call” object, I go over my irritation with the relative complexity and learned to like the async data calls.

Tracy

From: Carson Hager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 07, 20051:15 PM
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Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Equivalent to Thread.sleep()

Basically, I'm trying to stop executiong of a function until the result returns. When it returns, I want to get the result and return it as the return value to the function..basically a wrapper around a web service call that provides a synchronous response to the calling code. Any ideas on how to do this?

Thanks,

Carson

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From:Dimitrios Gianninas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 07, 200511:47 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Equivalent to Thread.sleep()

Hi,

There is no equivalent. Are you try to make sure that when one call is finished the next one is executed (but only when the first one completed)? You can easily achieve this by making the second call once the result for the first one has been received.

Jimmy Gianninas

Software Developer - Optimal Payments Inc.

From:Carson Hager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, March 06, 20056:19 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [flexcoders] Equivalent to Thread.sleep()

Is there something in Flex that will put a thread to sleep for a period of time? I'm implementing a framework to effectively allow synchronous invocation of web services from action script. I need to be able to put the thread to sleep for a period of time and check to see whether the results have made it back to the internal result handler. I've searched the docs and have not found anything yet. Any clever ideas how to do this?