RE: [flexcoders] Sleep function in ActionScript?

[Joan Tan]

You can use the setTimeout function in the flash.utils package.   From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Charles Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 3:38 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Sleep function in ActionScript?   Hi all,   I have this bit of code that does some simple things, but my timing is off.  What I do is I make a webservice call to some server, and the server returns me a string of XML.  After that, I parse that string of XML into an XMLDocument object, to use as a data provider for a repeater.  That's it.  Here is a simple version of my code.   WebserviceCall();  // this function returns the result as an XML string and puts it                    // into a String variable called string_result on event.COMPLETE xml_result.parseXML(string_result); my_repeater.dataProvider = xml_result; So this al works fine when I do each one of these steps separately.  But when I try to do them in succession, I get an error on the line that tried to parse the XML.  This is because it takes a while for the server to return the XML result and put it into string_result.  So, when the application tries to execute the next line, it tries to parse an empty string into XML, which obviously fails on me.    What I tried already, was putting a simple loop in before the parse call to make sure that the String is not null... while (!string_result);  // wait until string is not null before continuing ...but this eats up my resources and crashes the browser.  So, I am wondering if there is a sleep function in ActionScript, so that I could go...   while (!string_result) sleep(1);  // sleep for 1 second before repeating loop                                   // hopefully this won't stress the system as much  So that's my plan of attack.  I know that sleeps are kind of "hack" fixes, so any other suggestions are welcome!   Thanks in advance!     Charles -- 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 Software development best practice 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.