> Unless the Lingo documentation explicitly says differently, all Lingo > calls are "synchronous" - which means that your program waits there > until the operation complete.
This sometimes leads people to make the same assumption about 3rd party xtras. But if an xtra is making calls in to the system API, the next line of Lingo can execute even if the previous xtra call is not done. Lingo has no way of knowing if the call into the system has completed unless the xtra decides to stall, waiting for the operation to complete. There are times, such as when launching apps or moving windows around where you would want to allow Director to continue, regardless of whether the call had finished its work. ------------------- Gretchen Macdowall www.updatestage.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
