At 5:22 PM -0500 1/4/01, grimmwerks wrote:
>I'm trying to get my head about something here....oh, that's a monitor...
>
>I'm trying to do a background task that will handle sending user info
>during a courseware product. What I'd like to do is have a background
>task that will queue the tracking information into it's own list, cycling
>through each in it's own proplist, making sure they're received and
>removing it from the list (since 4 asynch messages might be solid).
>
>Now, the question: should I do this as a parent script (ie new) and
>during the course sending parameters to the object to add new tasks, or
>just tossing them to the actorlist and having the main moviescript
>enterframe check each?
>
>...actually reading through this I'm not sure if I'm making myself clear,
>sounds like a 'duh' answer will be forthcoming....
>
Sounds like an excellent place for a global "Net" object whose job is
to handle postNetText operations. It should put itself into the
actorList so it gets "serviced" every frame event. Something like
this (completely untested):
property plNetIds -- property that is a list of NetIDs
property pnIDs -- the number of IDs currently in use
on new me
plNetIDs = []
pnIds = 0
add(the actorList, me)
return me
end
on mNewRequest me, someParams
if pnIDs = 4 then
alert("Sorry, all full right now")
return me
end
netID = postNetText(someParams)
add(plNetIDs, netID)
pnIds = pnIds + 1
end
on stepFrame me
if pnIDs = 0 then
return -- nothing to do
end if
repeat with i = pnIDs down to 1 -- allows for easy deletion
thisID = plNetIDs[i]
if netDone(thisID) then
-- do whatever you want here
-- perhaps a callback passed in with the mNewRequest call
deleteAt(plNetID)
pnIDs = pnIDs - 1
end if
end repeat
end
on mCleanUp me
deleteone(the actorList, me)
end
And you need the movie scripts:
global gNetObject
on StartMovie
gNetObject = new(script "Net")
end
on stopMovie
gNetObject.mCleanUp()
gNetObject = VOID
Then when you want to make a request do this:
global gNetObject
gNetObject.mNewRequest, someParams)
Irv
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