startup question
Jim Ault
JimAultWins at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 12 22:16:43 EDT 2006
I have not done this kind of event looping yet, but couldn't you add a
handler in the library that would call back that it was ready? Then in your
code, do a repeat until it echoed a response?
HTH
Jim Ault
Las Vegas
On 4/12/06 6:32 PM, "Stephen Barncard" <stephenREVOLUTION at barncard.com>
wrote:
> I have a chicken-and-egg situation..
>
> I have a stack startup handler that works fine until it does a 'start
> using' for a library stack, and then immediately needs to use a
> handler in that stack just included.
>
> What happens is that the code keeps marching along, the lib isn't
> active yet... and --- error.
>
> I've put a 'wait 30 ticks' then a 'wait 60 ticks' before continuing.
> Not long enough? I know, I know, cheesy too.
>
> What's the best way to allow the lib to load.. and how do I wait or
> hold for it?
> I know there's an 'librarystack' message..
>
> thanks.
>
> sqb
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