if you only have to reload the data every 3 minutes, you should be fine using a timer.
You won't get the 'script running too long' error as a result of using a timer. That error happens basically when code takes too long to process or goes into an infinite loop. john On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:34 AM, flexaustin wrote: > I think I asked this question before but my searches for my messages > come up empty (search in this forum is awful). > > I have a Flex application that I need to do polling. Because of the > implementation/install of our app I cannot use any push technology. > > So my solution, which I am not sure will work, is to create a timer > on my the main stage that every 3 minutes tell the app to it needs > to make another httpservice call. > > My question is can this be done or if I create a timer that loops > forever will I get a Timeout error "script has been running blah > blah or what ever the time error says"? > > Or I could create a timer and have it run and when it sends out a > request create a new timer and kill/delete/remove the last timer? > > Any other way to accomplish this? > >
