|> To subscribers of the xforms list from Marisa Giancarla
|> <marisa@andromedia.com> :
|>
|> >>>>> "Dikoma" == Dikoma C Shungu <shungu@ultranmr.cpmc.columbia.edu>
|> writes:
|>
|> Dikoma> Nothing to add here, except that I fully & *strongly*
|> Dikoma> agree with Steve's [spl] last point here. I would opt for
|> Dikoma> asynchronous I/O. I will elaborate if the poster wants me
|> Dikoma> to, but it is cleaner (just dealt with something like
|> Dikoma> today!)
|>
|> It's not cleaner when you want to avoid multiple threads, and
|> you have lots of bidirectional I/O going on that must be handled in
|> sequence by the nature of what is being done. To allow this to
|> function via an I/O callback would require adding some state, wrapping
|> all calls to disable all user input during the time it was busy, and
|> adding an incredibly complex parser to try and figure out exactly what
|> this incoming data related to, all in millisec timing. It could be
|> done by spawning a whole subtask which sat there and did all the work,
|> and then I could simply lock the UI while it was busy, but the whole
|> point of what I am doing is to try and eleminate having a seperate UI
|> and back-end.
|>
|> Like I said, the default behavior is exactly what I want, with
|> the exception that I would like to be able to update a status display
|> in the xforms controlled window while it is locked.
|>
Marisa,
I skipped work because right now my Baltimore Birds are playing the New York
Yankees in Baltimore (I live in NY so I should be rooting for the Yanks; but
having "done time" [4 yrs of postdoc are equivalent] at Johns Hopkins in
Baltimore, I can't let go of the Orioles.) We just got creamed for the
second day in a row! All of a sudden the O's look mortal... Although the
yanks have to overcome a 7.5-game deficit, a sweep (2 more games) may change
everything.
I want to think some more about your 'problem' now that I think I see
(said the blind man) what you're attempting to do. I just read Steve's reply
and the last thing I wish to do is argue with spl without having my facts
straight.
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