Read from socket async?

[David Vaughan]

Dave

My test and conclusions are valid. Their implication and result is that 
the line I highlighted in your script below will cause your repeat loop 
NEVER to terminate. You see, the message(s) "dataAdded" are only queued 
by the read handler, not executed until the entire mouseUp completes. My 
own script also queues messages in the same way, but completes, after 
which all the queued messages (one for each read with data) are then 
successively run.

This, of course, is Gary's problem as well. How to write an efficient 
input loop which can receive data fast, process it, and do so in the 
background so it will also respond to user commands (I presume).

regards
David

>
snip
> on mouseUp
>   global sname
>   put zero into lcounter
>   repeat 10
>     read from socket sname until return with message "dataAdded"
>     add 1 to lcounter
>     wait until lcCounter = (lcCounter -1) with messages ##this is the 
> block
>     put lcounter into field "f2"
>   end repeat
> end mouseUp
>
snip
>
> Cheers
> Dave Cragg
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