Multitasking Comes to iOS, Time for LC to make it better

[Mike Kerner]

I'm not immediately as worreid about getting multithreading/multitasking in
LC, because there are ways around that, if necessary.  On mobile, though,
there are significant advantages to having better/more capability while the
app is not in the front.


On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Dar Scott <dsc at swcp.com> wrote:

> Perhaps this can be exploited to allow the event model to work better.
>  Better and more messages and callbacks can allow the event model to get
> things done while people are doing other things.
>
> On the desktop, we might be getting command-line LiveCode back.  This
> means that some tasks can be pushed to a standalone and communication with
> that is by 'open process' reads and writes, or by TCP/IP.
>
> However, I heard somebody mention (dunno who, so this is blatant rumor)
> that development and stacks being tested will be more isolated, perhaps in
> separate threads or processes, and there might be some generalization of
> that that might help.
>
> Overall, my feeling is to let the event model work.  If we find weaknesses
> there, then lets ponder those.
>
> Dar
>
>
> On Jun 10, 2013, at 2:31 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Well, now that we are going to get multitasking, I would love to see
> some
> >> new tweaks from LC so we can take advantage, like, for example, being
> able
> >> to push data updates live, while the device's owner is doing something
> >> less, umm, productive.
> >>
> >
> > Heck, I'd like even very primitive threading for LC itself, so that I can
> > update a remote db in the background while the user continues to work,
> > instead of a potentially multi-second lag.
> >
> >
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