Re: HttpSocket and cpu usage

2006-11-19 Thread Fargo Holiday
Ok... so... If I do it the way listed below, everything is cool. If, however, I'm waiting for a result, then it goes back to the way it was before. So, it seems that it has nothing to do with waiting for a string, but rather the result in general. So this: dim h as new HTTPSocket dim da

Re: HttpSocket and cpu usage

2006-11-19 Thread Mark Lubratt
Immutable strings.(?) Mark On Nov 19, 2006, at 1:48 PM, Fargo Holiday wrote: Solved it! I was thinking to myself how odd it was to try and save that data to a string. So, I added this to a button: dim h as new HTTPSocket dim data as FolderItem data = GetFolderItem("downer.rar") h.get("

Re: HttpSocket and cpu usage

2006-11-19 Thread Fargo Holiday
Solved it! I was thinking to myself how odd it was to try and save that data to a string. So, I added this to a button: dim h as new HTTPSocket dim data as FolderItem data = GetFolderItem("downer.rar") h.get("http://www.rpgportland.com/software/sounds.rar";, data) Lo! Barely a blip in CP

Re: HttpSocket and cpu usage

2006-11-19 Thread Tomas Camin
Well at least I'm not alone. I tried in different ways, but I'm always getting way too high cpu loads. Tomas Howdy, On my XP box, I ran your code to download a file from my website, and it would grab up to whatever CPU power was available. I put it in a thread and that kept it running

Re: HttpSocket and cpu usage

2006-11-19 Thread Fargo Holiday
Howdy, On my XP box, I ran your code to download a file from my website, and it would grab up to whatever CPU power was available. I put it in a thread and that kept it running between 34 and 40% of the CPU load. Should a single call to http get do that? I have no real idea. Mostly I wanted to

HttpSocket and cpu usage

2006-11-19 Thread Tomas Camin
Hi, is it normal that httpsocket.get uses a lot of resources? I'm trying to get a big file from the net simply doing: start new project Window1.open: dim h as new HTTPSocket dim data as string data=h.get(,5) // myfile=url to any big file on the net No matter if I put it in a thread