"launch document" synchronous on Linux only?

[Robert Sneidar]

Richard I don't know what you mean by synchronously. If you mean simultaneously while the LC engine goes on to do other things, this works "asynchronously" for me on OS X 10.6.8 and LC 5.5.3. I put this in a button: 


on mouseUp
    answer file "Choose a word document:"
    put it into theFile
    if theFile is empty then exit mouseUp
    repeat with i = 1 to 10
        wait one second
        put i
        if i = 1 then launch document theFile
    end repeat
end mouseUp

While the file is loading and Microsoft Word is launching, the counter keeps counting. This is what I would expect. Once the Finder gets the command to open the document, it could care less what other apps are doing, even the app that told it to open the document in the first place. 

Are you saying that on Linux, the command waits until the document and associated app is launched? This may be due to your particular flavor of Linux file manager not being multithreaded, but I admit I am ignorant about this aspect of Linux, or Linux in general! 

Bob


On Jan 18, 2013, at 9:35 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> I've somehow never noticed that on Linux the "launch document" command behaves synchronously, while it's not synchronous on Mac or IIRC on Windows.
> 
> This winds up being especially bad for RunRev:  you can't use the IDE after choosing Help->User Guide.
> 
> I've filed a bug report for the IDE issue:
> <http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10649>
> 
> Before I file a report on "launch document" itself I wanted to check to see if any of you folks can think of a reason why this should be synchronous, and if you know enough about GTK to point me to the API which could be used for asynchronous launch.
> 
> TIA -
> 
> -- 
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems
> ____________________________________________________________
> Ambassador at FourthWorld.com        http://www.FourthWorld.com
> 
> _______________________________________________
> use-livecode mailing list
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:
> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode