On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Don Guinn <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks. Will go to UNIX and try there. As I understand sdselect it hangs > until either a socket event occurs or the timer expires. What I was wanting > to do was to allow other events such as forms events to also be handled as > can be done in Windows using adsync. I guess in UNIX one has to set a > reasonably small timer in sdselect to let J wake up and see if anything else > needs to be done.
Yes. In concept, J under unix could implement sdasync using select (or poll), but this has to be implemented in the main loop for a reasonable implementation. (I filed a feature request for this http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/System/Library/Requests#sdasyncforUNIX but i filed it as a library request and it can not be implemented without changing J's main loop.) J7 looks like a big step in the right direction for making this possible. FYI, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
