Kirk, Now why didn’t I think of that? It’s exactly what CALL WORKER is for, isn’t it?
Jeremy > On 15 Jul 2019, at 16:44, Kirk Brooks via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> > wrote: > > Jeremy, > I don't think this would be a good situation for using Shared objects. > Every object in a shared object must itself be shared. There's a lot of > overhead involved in maintaining the various lockers and such. > > I would look at using CALL WORKER. Bundle up everything into an object and > pack it off to a worker. When the worker is done the results come back via > CALL FORM. This will be faster and easier. > > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 8:27 AM Jeremy Roussak via 4D_Tech < > 4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > >> I have a form which accepts some information and, when a button is >> clicked, does some fairly time-consuming calculations which return a set of >> figures. At present, it uses objects with the Form object for input and >> output data. >> >> I’d like to hand off the calculations to a separate process. As I >> understand it, I can’t pass the Form object to the new process but have to >> create a shared object. >> >> How do I get the information from the Form object into the new shared >> object? I’ve tried >> >> $shared.formObj := OB Copy(Form) >> >> but it gives a error: “Not supported value in a shared object”. >> >> Am I, as so often, missing something obvious? >> >> Jeremy >> ********************************************************************** >> 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) >> Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html >> Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech >> Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com >> ********************************************************************** > > > > -- > Kirk Brooks > San Francisco, CA > ======================= > > What can be said, can be said clearly, > and what you can’t say, you should shut up about > > *Wittgenstein and the Computer * > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com > ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************
