tsNet with async calls can help you get this. Best regards,
Mark Talluto livecloud.io <http://livecloud.io/> nursenotes.net <http://nursenotes.net/> canelasoftware.com <http://www.canelasoftware.com/> > On Jun 14, 2018, at 8:24 AM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > I would love to be able to start a thread that formatted a field that might > be selected and made visible at a later date or have a scrolling field that > could have the non-visible lines being formatted in another thread before you > scroll down. Say you were going to a new card that required a DB query. You > could have the card layout code and the query to a local DB running at the > same time. Even with LCs message hierarchy multithreading could work. You > could fire off a DB query thread and have a message sent to the main thread > when complete. Inter thread communication would be key. That is where locking > would be tricky to prevent dead locks. > > Ralph DiMola > IT Director > Evergreen Information Services > rdim...@evergreeninfo.net > > -----Original Message----- > From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf > Of Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2018 10:56 AM > To: How to use LiveCode > Cc: Bob Sneidar > Subject: Re: Anything LiveCode Can Learn From GO > > Multithreading sounds like a good idea until you realize most things that > have to happen in Livecode due to the message heirarchy need to be single > threaded. It's only when you need to make a server of some sort that > multithreading really needs to be implemented. > > Bob S > > >> On Jun 11, 2018, at 17:08 , Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> I wasn't thinking about high language per se. but more from an engine >> point of view, specifically use of "Goroutines" >> >> "But, most of the modern programming languages(like Java, Python etc.) are >> from the ’90s single threaded environment. Most of those programming >> languages supports multi-threading. But the real problem comes with >> concurrent execution, threading-locking, race conditions and deadlocks. >> Those things make it hard to create a multi-threading application on those >> languages. > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
