On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 10:12:13PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If I have to ports that I wait for data on how can I put them in a while or
> forever loop without locking up the console. If I had a if statement
> testing data received.
That depends on the type of port and the version of REBOL you use. Assuming
tcp, udp or serial ports opened with /direct, you can wait for multiple ports
with
wait [port1 port2]
which returns one of the ports if it has data, none otherwise. To get a block
of all ports returned instead of just a single port use wait/all (latest
experimental version only).
To just poll ports without blocking add a timeout of zero, i.e. try
wait [port1 port2 0]
Using a timeout of zero to poll only works with some old (pre-2.3) versions
of REBOL (on some platforms) and with the latest experimental versions (on all
platforms), but not with REBOL 2.3.
Other types of ports currently do not support 'wait. Higher-level network
ports (HTTP etc.) will probably support it in one of the next experimental
versions, when opened with /direct.
You may also want to look at the no-wait refinement for 'open. It
guarantees that 'copy on a port never blocks, even if there is no data
available on it (latest experimental version only).
--
Holger Kruse
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
