Recently, "Chipp Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you provide an example where you would use one and not the other or > not 'send'?
Chipp -- I didn't see too many other responses here so I'll chime in... One thing I recently started using "wait with messages" for is queuing a set of sounds for playback. I was a staunch advocate for using "send in" to monitor the status of media using all sorts of custom timers and what-not. But then it occurred to me that "wait with messages" should achieve the same result, and it seems to work great. As a simple example: on playQueue pList repeat with N = 1 to number of items of pList play audioClip N wait until the sound is done with messages wait 500 milliseconds with messages end repeat end playQueue The above handler will play a list of audioClips sent to it with a 1/2 second delay between each clip. Now playing audio by itself is not very overwhelming until you realize that the above repeat loop will run virtually asynchronously while other scripts are running: mouse tracking, button clicks, hiding/showing images, pretty much anything. Another way to use "wait with messages" is card or stack initialization for any set of events that take time to process (such as setting fileNames of players and starting playback). I've only just started getting into this technique but so far it involves less scripting and maintenance than "send in" and it virtually eliminates stray message loops winding up in the pendingMessages. My impression is that "wait with messages" is pretty much the same as "send in" but without control or access to the messages being sent by the engine. I'd like to see Scott Raney chime on this from a technical level to know what the real differences are, if any. Anyway, while some folks on the list may be put off by the lack of real "external" message threading, the "internal" threading within Rev is pretty phenomenal once you start to play around with it. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Development & Design ----- E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.tactilemedia.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution