Re: [flexcoders] Equivalent to Thread.sleep()

2005-03-08 Thread Dave Carabetta
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 15:29:15 -0500, Carson Hager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand that it's a web application but that's hardly any excuse. Nothing in the Java or .NET world requires you to handle web service calls asynchronously. This is unique to Flash/Flex. Couldn't you put the

Re: [flexcoders] Equivalent to Thread.sleep()

2005-03-08 Thread Manish Jethani
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 00:05:53 +0200, Shlomi Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as far as i know - async can only be implemented in threads otherwise its synchronous , so what is the limitation exactly ? No, actually asynchronous and threads are different things. Maybe the Flash Player does use a

RE: [flexcoders] Equivalent to Thread.sleep()

2005-03-07 Thread Tracy Spratt
: Carson Hager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 07, 20051:15 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Equivalent to Thread.sleep() Basically, I'm trying to stop executiong of a function until the result returns. When it returns, I want to get the result and return

RE: [flexcoders] Equivalent to Thread.sleep()

2005-03-07 Thread Carson Hager
: Monday, March 07, 2005 1:47 PMTo: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [flexcoders] Equivalent to Thread.sleep() As far as I know, this cant be done. The flash player is single threaded, so nothing else happens in a timer loop, nothing will return. It seems like there should be a way to hack

RE: [flexcoders] Equivalent to Thread.sleep()

2005-03-07 Thread Robert Stuttaford
: [flexcoders] Equivalent to Thread.sleep() There are plenty of occasions where weare using web services for something other than data feeds. For example, there are plenty of business rule checks that we need to perform during the course of some application logic, the results of which will determine

RE: [flexcoders] Equivalent to Thread.sleep()

2005-03-07 Thread Robert Stuttaford
: Carson Hager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 March 2005 10:08 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Equivalent to Thread.sleep() What if I have to interrogate the database or some other server side operation to determine the business rule response? Carson

Re: [flexcoders] Equivalent to Thread.sleep()

2005-03-07 Thread Joe Berkovitz
*From:* Robert Stuttaford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, March 07, 2005 3:01 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] Equivalent to Thread.sleep() Entrust your business logic processing to the client-side; after all, it isnt just

RE: [flexcoders] Equivalent to Thread.sleep()

2005-03-07 Thread Shlomi Cohen
synchronous , so what is the limitation exactly ? Shlomi From: Carson Hager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 07,2005 10:29 PMTo: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [flexcoders] Equivalent to Thread.sleep() I understand that it's a web application but that's hardly any excuse