Idle Messages to Hidden Stacks

[Ray Horsley]

Phil,

Thanks for these two ideas.  I hadn't thought of the 'wait... with messages' command.  I think I'll experiment with that since it seems a little less sticky.

Ray Horsley
LinkIt! Software

On Feb 4, 2012, at 2:25 PM, Phil Davis wrote:

> Hi Ray,
> 
> It seems your only choices are (1) put your stack outside the realm of those stacks flushing the events, or (2) structure your script so it isn't using messages to run.
> 
> Approach #1 means running it under a different instance of the engine (e.g. as a standalone that communicates with instance #1 via sockets for example), which could be pretty complex depending on what your stack is doing.
> 
> Approach #2 means running your stuff inside a repeat loop that has a 'wait x seconds with messages'  inside the loop. Seems like that would be impervious to flushEvents() but I haven't tested it.
> 
> Maybe someone else will think of other ways to handle your situation.
> 
> Best -
> Phil Davis
> 
> 
> On 2/4/12 10:59 AM, Ray Horsley wrote:
>> I thought idle handlers ran in hidden stacks as long as they were top level.  Seems this has gone away.  Any ideas on this?  I'm trying to get an idle handler to run in a hidden stack but I can only send messages from that same stack.  Sending "idle" from the stack to itself in X seconds is not working because other handlers in stacks I have no control over are flushing events.
>> 
>> Ray Horsley
>> LinkIt! Software
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