Re: [flexcoders] Why aren't we allowed to process the event queue? (eg: like DoEvents)

2007-05-04 Thread Troy Gilbert
@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.comflexcoders%40yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Manish Jethani Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 11:14 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Why aren't we allowed to process

Re: [flexcoders] Why aren't we allowed to process the event queue? (eg: like DoEvents)

2007-05-03 Thread Troy Gilbert
] *On Behalf Of *Jim Grinsfelder *Sent:* Wednesday, May 02, 2007 2:00 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] Why aren't we allowed to process the event queue? (eg: like DoEvents) Maybe we already can tell flash to process the UI event queue... What happens when you use

Re: [flexcoders] Why aren't we allowed to process the event queue? (eg: like DoEvents)

2007-05-03 Thread Manish Jethani
On 5/3/07, Troy Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the best solution for Flash would be to introduce a first-class thread object. That way developers could spawn long-lasting tasks to a separate thread. If threading is introduced in the player, much of the Flex framework might have to

Re: [flexcoders] Why aren't we allowed to process the event queue? (eg: like DoEvents)

2007-05-03 Thread Paul J DeCoursey
Manish Jethani wrote: On 5/3/07, Troy Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the best solution for Flash would be to introduce a first-class thread object. That way developers could spawn long-lasting tasks to a separate thread. If threading is introduced in the player, much

RE: [flexcoders] Why aren't we allowed to process the event queue? (eg: like DoEvents)

2007-05-03 Thread Samuel R. Neff
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Why aren't we allowed to process the event queue? (eg: like DoEvents) On 5/3/07, Troy Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the best solution for Flash would be to introduce a first-class thread object. That way developers could spawn

Re: [flexcoders] Why aren't we allowed to process the event queue? (eg: like DoEvents)

2007-05-03 Thread Ralf Bokelberg
Jethani Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 11:14 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Why aren't we allowed to process the event queue? (eg: like DoEvents) On 5/3/07, Troy Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] troy.gilbert%40gmail.com wrote: I think the best solution

[flexcoders] Why aren't we allowed to process the event queue? (eg: like DoEvents)

2007-05-02 Thread Tim
Why aren't we allowed to tell flash to process the UI event queue periodically in long executing subroutines? Hell, just something to tell the client not to go into Not Responding would be more than enough. I call validate now periodically, but that doesn't help because I still get the Not

Re: [flexcoders] Why aren't we allowed to process the event queue? (eg: like DoEvents)

2007-05-02 Thread Ralf Bokelberg
Hi Tim How about splitting up your huge task (i'm just guessing here) and let Flex decide, when it is ready to run the next portion of it? If you use a Timer or setInterval is should work like that. Cheers, Ralf On 5/2/07, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why aren't we allowed to tell flash

RE: [flexcoders] Why aren't we allowed to process the event queue? (eg: like DoEvents)

2007-05-02 Thread Jim Grinsfelder
: [flexcoders] Why aren't we allowed to process the event queue? (eg: like DoEvents) Why aren't we allowed to tell flash to process the UI event queue periodically in long executing subroutines? Hell, just something to tell the client not to go into Not Responding would be more than enough. I

RE: [flexcoders] Why aren't we allowed to process the event queue? (eg: like DoEvents)

2007-05-02 Thread Alex Harui
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Why aren't we allowed to process the event queue? (eg: like DoEvents) Maybe we already can tell flash to process the UI event queue... What happens when you use CallLater() to call yourself back? From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com