Tracy/ Beau... Thanks for your replies...That's helped me understand how things work a bit more...
I'm going to try it though! haha :-) Cheers, Nick 2009/8/27 Tracy Spratt <tr...@nts3rd.com> > > > Flex procedural code is essentially single threaded. The loop will stop > all other processing, the handler will never get called, and the loop will > never stop. > > > > There is NO sleep or delay or pause or anything like that in Flex. You > must use events. > > > > Tracy Spratt, > > Lariat Services, development services available > ------------------------------ > > *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On > Behalf Of *Nick Middleweek > *Sent:* Thursday, August 27, 2009 6:43 AM > *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > *Subject:* Re: [Spam] RE: [Spam] [flexcoders] Question on Flex Script > Execution + Alert.show > > > > > > Why won't it work? I can't see why it wouldn't... I'm still learning Flex > so perhaps I've overlooked something. > > I do agree, it is bad coding but I can't see why it wouldn't work. > > The boolAlertContinue variable is in affect acting like semaphore... > > > Cheers, > Nick > > > > 2009/8/27 Tracy Spratt <tr...@nts3rd.com> > > > > No, no, no, this will not work. You must use the event mechanism. > > > > Tracy Spratt, > > Lariat Services, development services available > ------------------------------ > > *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On > Behalf Of *Nick Middleweek > *Sent:* Wednesday, August 26, 2009 7:33 PM > *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > *Subject:* Re: [Spam] [flexcoders] Question on Flex Script Execution + > Alert.show > > > > > > I'm not sure if this technique is frowned upon but... > > > You could have a new private var boolAlertContinue:Boolean = false; > > In your alertHandler function, you would set it to true... boolAlertContinue > = true; > > And after the Alert.show and before the if(myAlert == 1) you need to do a > do while loop... > > do { > > //Not sure if there's a 'dummy' command to prevent CPU hog so we'll just > check the time... > > > > var dtmNow:Date = new Date(); > > } > > while (boolAlertContinue); > > > or you could probably initialise your myAlert:int = null and in the do ... > while loop check for (myAlert != null) > > > Cheers, > Nick > > > 2009/8/26 Angelo Anolin <angelo_ano...@yahoo.com> > > > > Hi FlexCoders, > > This has puzzled me a bit.. > > I have the following scripts in my application: > > private var myAlert:int; > > private function testFunction(evt:Event):void > { > Alert.show('do you want to proceed', 'Title', Alert.YES | Alert.NO, null, > alertHandler, null, Alert.YES); > > if(myAlert == 1) > { > // Do Something here > } > else > { > // Do other thing here > } > } > > Private function alertHandler(evt:CloseEvent) > { > if(evt.Detail == Alert.YES) > { > myAlert = 1; > } > else > { > myAlert = -1; > } > } > > Now, what puzzles me is that the script after the Alert.show is triggered, > the scripts following it are also triggered. > > Is there a way to ensure that the script following the Alert.show alert box > would only be executed after the Yes or No buttons has been pressed? > > I won't be able to move the scripts after the Alert.show script to the > alertHandler event since there are some objects being set / modified prior > to the alert being called. > > Inputs highly appreciated. > > Thanks. > > > > > >
