Cool generic scripts...

[Chipp Walters]

Yep,
Dave you are right.
I generally trap all close stack messages from other stacks before they get
to the main stack.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com
> [mailto:use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com]On Behalf Of Dave Cragg
> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 12:24 PM
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: RE: Cool generic scripts...
>
>
> At 10:30 am -0600 5/11/02, Chipp Walters wrote:
> >Brad,
> >
> >Some of the commands in libURL are asychronous. So it is
> possible to issue a
> >command and then continue woriking in RR. In these cases,
> killsockets would
> >help if one was to quit before a command was finishing executing. Course,
> >I'm not sure RR/MC doesn't automatically kill sockets when quitting (??)
> >
> >I have built some of my own socket protocols for file transfer
> and seem to
> >remember having some problem with a 'residual' effect after quitting a
> >program with sockets open...that's why I use the killsockets on
> close stack
> >script. It can't hurt.
>
> It can. :)
>
> closeStack isn't necessarily the same as quitting, for example when
> you have multiple windows. Closing all open sockets while libUrl is
> doing something is not a good idea. It shouldn't harm if you really
> are quitting, but if say your closeStack handler ran when a status
> window closed during a download, you could be in trouble. On shutdown
> would be a better place to do this.
>
> Cheers
> Dave
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