[flexcoders] Re: Sleep function in ActionScript?

Fri, 02 Jun 2006 14:00:40 -0700

Thanks for the replies everyone!  It helps a lot.


--- In [email protected], "Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>
> 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
>







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