Making "read from file" less blocky.
Jerry Jensen
jerry at jhjensen.com
Sat Aug 3 22:36:33 EDT 2019
Hi Tom,
I’ve done this in the past watching it instead of the result. I seem to remember eof was not useful. Maybe for a serial port it would be?
As in:
repeat forever
read from file ThisFile for (1024 * 1000) bytes
if it is empty then exit repeat
— do your stuff
wait 0 with messages
end repeat
Onward,
.Jerry non-sphere (tetrahedron?)
It was a long time ago in, I think, LC 5, so YMMV.
> On Aug 3, 2019, at 5:56 PM, Tom Glod via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> Hey folks,
>
> I'm having trouble finding a combination of settings that allows my file
> loading to seem to happen in the background.
>
> repeat while read_result is not "eof"
> read from file ThisFile for (1024 * 1000) bytes
> put the result into read_result
> put it after IntoThisVariable
> add length(it) to amount_read
> TSTProgress amount_read,ExpectedSize,"%","Loading File ..."
> (Progress Indicator Handler)
> wait 10 milliseconds with messages
> end repeat
>
> no matter what I try, its still sluggish, and it seems like messages are
> still accumilating instead of being processed by the engine.
>
> Am I missing something? Normally waiting with messages sufficiently frees
> the engine to allow the UI to remain responsive.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom
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