Threading or similar in LiveCode

[Rod McCall]

Dear Scott and Ken,

Thanks for your replies. I will try out the solutions suggested. Right
now the control console will only really be used to send/receive
events as there is another simulation server and actual graphical
environment - the AI for the cars will be handled elsewhere not in
LiveCode. The main thing is that the console is capable of
sending/receiving data in "near" real time, for example the telemetry
data of the person we are observing.

The project is currently using a mix of LiveCode, C++ and Python.

Kind regards,

rod

On 20 July 2012 12:08, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:
> Hi Rod:
>
> I'm don't use Python but if you're referring to threading as in
> multithreading -- running multiple threads simultaneously -- LiveCode
> doesn't have this.  One way you can *kind of* simulate threading is using
> the send command:  send "xyz" to button 5 in 20 millisecs .  This doesn't
> accomplish true multithreading, but in some cases allows near simultaneous
> processing of multiple messages, if the code to be executed isn't too time
> consuming or blocking.  Another method could be to run a completely separate
> LiveCode process and allow the two to exchange data/messages.
>
> Other folks may have additional suggestions.
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX Design
>
>
>
> Recently, Rod McCall wrote:
>
>> Dear LiveCoders,
>>
>> As I said in a previous email I am returning to LiveCode after a few
>> years (well seven to be exact) so am a little rusty. Anyway right now
>> we are implementing a car simulator environment of which we will use
>> LiveCode as the control console for the simulation - at least that is
>> the current plan. Am I right in thinking there is no equivalent to the
>> Threading class that you find in Python? If so how do people implement
>> something which is similar to this? I may have missed the info in the
>> docs but a quick Google or scan of the RR website for anything
>> resembling threading seems to yield very little.
>>
>> If no such equivalent exists are there ways round this? For example
>> using sub-stacks etc each one behaving like a "fake thread"?
>>
>> Sorry if this seems a silly question but it has been a few years since
>> I used LiveCode.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> rod
>
>
>
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Dr Rod McCall
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Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust
University of Luxembourg
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