On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 01:41 +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: > > No, the call without .begin() is being deprecated. > > > > >From yestarday's discussion on IRC I understood it's not generally possible > > to collapse to synchronous call automagically. Doing it involves running > > a (recursive) main loop until the callback is called, but this brings a lot > > of problems like something quitting the outer loop, the nested loops being > > quit out of order and such. Therefore it should not be done without user's > > explicit request. > > I see, am I correct then in assuming that at the end of the day this means, > calling an asynchronous function with out/return arguments is forbidden/will > not work from synchronous code?
You can certainly call an asynchronous method with out/return values, however, you obviously have to wait for the method to return until you can use them. You could, for example, handle them in a closure used as callback to .begin. Jürg _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list Vala-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
