On 12/7/05, A.Cicak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I dont understand how your UI could lock in the first place? Sockets and > sounds are already working in another thread and all other code which could > lock the UI (like some long loops, etc.) can be made by "emulating" loop > with onEnterFrame and few > counters.
Yeah, but onEnterFrame and counters make for some pretty nasty code that is hard to read, debug, maintain, etc... > > "Scott Hyndman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Windows 3.1 was single threaded. As I understand it, programs would hook > into the event loop and be given a handle. While they held the handle, > they could run their own code, but they were supposed to release it when > they were finished to allow other running programs to use it. > > I guess what I'm trying to say is quite a bit you can do without > multiple threads. > > And just as a side note, I came up with an interesting idea today on how > to emulate multiple threads in Flash. Just use more than one movie! Talk > between the UI movie and the background worker movie with a > LocalConnection object, and you're in business. No more UI lock. > > Scott > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Boon > Chew > Sent: December 3, 2005 8:24 PM > To: Flashcoders mailing list > Subject: [Flashcoders] Flash is a single-threaded app? Maybe it's just > theAVM? or... > > > I have read in this forum that someone loosely coined the phrase > "Flash is a single thread app", it's hard to imagine something as high > performance and intricate as Flash to be a single-threaded app. > > So I started to take the above statement to mean that the Actionscript > VM executes all the code in a sequential fashion but that Flash player > itself is multithreaded, is that a right assumption? > > And what about code that are asynchronous in nature, such as sound > playing ( new Sound(), onSoundComplete), server-side call return (such > as LoadVars, XML.onLoad)? Are these all happening in the single thread > of code execution? > > Looks like a book on Flash and AVM Internal would be nice. :) > > - boon > > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Personals > Single? There's someone we'd like you to meet. > Lots of someones, actually. Try Yahoo! Personals > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
