Re: lingo-l actorlist

2001-01-19 Thread Irv Kalb
At 3:40 PM -0500 1/18/01, Ian Jempson wrote: I have a parent script for the connection to my back end application server. Up till now I have been creating a new instance of that object and storing it in a global variable. I have just read about the actorlist (I'm new to Director so I keep

lingo-l actorlist

2001-01-18 Thread Ian Jempson
I have a parent script for the connection to my back end application server. Up till now I have been creating a new instance of that object and storing it in a global variable. I have just read about the actorlist (I'm new to Director so I keep discovering these things) and now my current

Re: lingo-l actorlist -- communication script

2001-01-18 Thread grimmwerks
Maybe I'm being too nice a guy, but here's a script I'm using to communicate to a server asynchly, queuing up 4 things to track as well as flagging an important 'call' and waiting for that one too. On the whole you can use most of it, but I'm calling it up by the global 'gcomlink', and

Re: lingo-l actorlist

2001-01-18 Thread Jakob Hede Madsen
At 15:40 -0500 01_01_18, Ian Jempson wrote: May I suggest, if you are in D8, that you look at timeOutObjects rather than the actorlist. Let your object create its own timeOutObject and give itself as the callBack reference, then besides the method you specify, it will also receive exitFrame