Making "read from file" less blocky.

[Jerry Jensen]

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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