Threading or similar in LiveCode

[Bob Sneidar]

Thanks for that! BTW, might I suggest brightening up the background color of the web page? Contrast is your friend when putting text on color. It kind of hurt to read that. Just a suggestion. 

Bob


On Jul 20, 2012, at 3:31 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:

> That's similar to what I did  with "taskRunner"
> 
> - a (could be headless) server which would accept commands, including
>       -  load stack
>       - dispatch command to stack
>    and would return the results of those commands
> - a client library to find and send commands to any such servers available.
> 
> I got it working (enough for my needs), but haven't yet made it into an easy-to-use tool for everyone. Use it almost every day - both for long running, boring tasks on my space PC and to use the multi-cores in my macbook for cpu intensive tasks.
> 
> Write up and code can be found at    http://www.tweedly.org/taskRunner.lc
> 
> -- Alex.
> 
> On 20/07/2012 19:11, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Bob Sneidar<bobs at twft.com>  wrote:
>>> What I came up with is a standalone that accepted Applescript commands. I could show,
>>> hide, launch, quit, relocate the "window" and set the message, all through Applescript.
>> I've been toying with the idea of some kind of "headless" standalone
>> to run on  a server, that would watch a directory for instructions,
>> and then perform the generation of my outupt forms.    I haven't gone
>> far into it, though.
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
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