Re: [flexcoders] script time warning and Flash Player 8

[JesterXL]

If you've: - stepped back, and gotten other people's feedback on another possible solution; mainly to prevent a forest for the trees perception of how to solve a problem - confirmed moving it to the server would truly take too much development time - implemented something like this like you mentioned you did: http://www.jessewarden.com/archives/2005/05/flex_flash_refr.html - upped the scriptTimeoutLimit   Then all I can say is improve on the above by only processing as many nodes as you can per frame on the lowest target platform you're willing to support.  In my multimedia days, we'd pick a target platform CPU/RAM spec, test for that, and to hell with the rest.   The moniker of "web app" however apparently brings the moral responsibility of "working well for the masses".  App & Page are 2 different things, but many people apparently can't tell the 2 apart.   ...sorry for the rant; um, you could implement a timer solution.  Basically, instead of "processing 5 nodes per frame because that apparently works well on most machines", you could instead implement a timer that, if it takes longer than 8 to 10 seconds, it waits a frame.  The risk with this is if one node is particulary long it could accidentally call the script timeout... BUT sometimes you may process just a few more nodes than you usually would.   Another solution is to offload some things to _javascript_.  _javascript_, for example, has RegExp, and it's fast; Flash does not yet.  _javascript_ Pre-Flash 8.5 is faster a lot of times for some data operations; see if _javascript_ can help too.   Good luck!   ----- Original Message ----- From: Tracy Spratt To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 12:35 PM Subject: RE: [flexcoders] script time warning and Flash Player 8 Yes, I really need this.   Jesse, if you are still following this thread: Besides moving my entire process to the server(which would take me several weeks, and this is a rare condition that only a developer will see), is there anyway to “refactor”  a single process?  The is the massive calculation (in this case it is building two 30,000 node trees) that made me implement your status variable and doLater strategy in order to give the user some visible feedback while this process is running.  It is broken up into individual function calls, but it still triggers the time-out.   Tracy    From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of superabe superabe Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 6:04 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] script time warning and Flash Player 8   I do hope to refactor and optimize the code eventually, but I think the option to override the default  time limit of 60 seconds for your script should be made available. - superabe   On 10/31/05, JesterXL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I never knew it was an issue.   Incidentally, I think that is one of the worst features Macromedia could of implemented in Flex, although, I understand why they did it.   My opinion; if you are using that attribute of the application tag, it's time to refactor whatever part of your code requires it.   ----- Original Message ----- From: superabe superabe To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 10:36 AM Subject: [flexcoders] script time warning and Flash Player 8   Hello list,   resending this, hoping somebody has an answer.   The scriptTimeOut property for the application tag does not seem to be working. (I am testing the app using the debug version of Flash Player 8). I saw a thread reporting this issue in the flexcoders list http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders@yahoogroups.com/msg11465.html But no definitive answer there... Anybody on the list know if this has been resolved ? TIA, superabe   -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS    Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.   -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.