Read from socket async?

David Vaughan drvaughan55 at mac.com
Sun Feb 10 19:10:00 EST 2002


On Monday, February 11, 2002, at 12:18 , Dave Cragg wrote:

> Unfair!! It doesn't terminate because I hadn't had coffee and I didn't 
> have my glasses on. This is what I really typed. :)
>
> on mouseUp
>   global sname
>   put zero into lcounter
>   repeat 10
>     read from socket sname until return with message "dataAdded"
>     add 1 to lcounter
>     put lcounter - 1 into tCounter
>     wait until tCounter = lcounter with messages ##this is the block
>     put lcounter into field "f2"
>   end repeat
> end mouseUp

Dave
Actually, I had not even read about the "...with messages" option to 
"wait..." until you wrote this. Interesting, and yet more good options 
in Rev.
Thanks.
David




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