On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Andrew Kluthe <and...@rjdfarm.com> wrote:
> > My splash screen presents a login and upon authenticating the actual > splash > comes up, checks for updates, then connects to a database using SQLYoga. I > had made 2 handlers, one for starting and showing the gif, and one for > stopping, hiding and resetting the gif's state. > > Everything works as it should until SQLYoga actual goes to connect to the > database. At this point the gif animation freezes until the connection is > successfully made. The rest of the processes for initialization are > lightning fast so primarily the gif is for the wait on the connection to > the > db. > GIF animations will not animate while the engine is involved in a long process. If it is taking a while to connect to the database then the engine is in a revOpenDatabase call which would stop the GIF animation. I don't know that the GIF animation issue is something that can be addressed right now but you could submit a request to have revOpenDatabase be non-blocking. hostnametoaddress was recently update in 4.5 so a to be non-blocking if [callback] was provided: hostnameToAddress(hostname, [ callback ]) This is significant because now our applications don't have to lock up if there is a problem connecting to the internet. Maybe revOpenDatabase could have a [callback] option as well. -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Learning Systems ScreenSteps: http://www.screensteps.com Releasable Revolution Resources for Developers: http://revolution.bluemangolearning.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
