Re: Calling external support functions from other threads

2012-07-18 Thread Dar Scott
My second question... On Jul 17, 2012, at 11:02 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > You may find some useful information in the notes to bug 1242. >From the second part of the first tip by Trevor: > Usually I pass the following string through snprintf to SendCardMessage: > > global gDispatchRevolutionMess

Re: Calling external support functions from other threads

2012-07-18 Thread Dar Scott
Hmm. I wonder. On Jul 17, 2012, at 11:02 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > You may find some useful information in the notes to bug 1242. Thank you, Mark. I have some questions on this. I hope folks have some ideas. My first... Here is the first part of the applicable note: Adding these notes at

Re: Calling external support functions from other threads

2012-07-18 Thread Thierry Douez
2012/7/18 Guglielmo Braguglia > Hi Thierry, > go in the Quality Control Center, search for bug#1242, scroll down the > page ... you find the notes (/comments/) ;-) > > Guglielmo Thanks a lot. Too obvious, I'm going to have a coffee :) Thierry > > > On 18.07.2012 09:17, Thierry Douez wrote:

Re: Calling external support functions from other threads

2012-07-18 Thread Guglielmo Braguglia
Hi Thierry, go in the Quality Control Center, search for bug#1242, scroll down the page ... you find the notes (/comments/) ;-) Guglielmo On 18.07.2012 09:17, Thierry Douez wrote: Hi Mark, Were do I find the *notes* ? Try out Release notes but son't see anything. Regards, Thierry 2012/7/

Re: Calling external support functions from other threads

2012-07-18 Thread Thierry Douez
Hi Mark, Were do I find the *notes* ? Try out Release notes but son't see anything. Regards, Thierry 2012/7/18 Mark Wieder > > You may find some useful information in the notes to bug 1242. > > ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev

Re: Calling external support functions from other threads

2012-07-17 Thread Dar Scott
Thanks Mark! That is good to know. The external I'm looking might be OK. It has the send in time, but not the try wrapper. Dar On Jul 17, 2012, at 11:02 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Andre, Dar- > > You may find some useful information in the notes to bug 1242. > > -- > -Mark Wieder > mwie.

Re: Calling external support functions from other threads

2012-07-17 Thread Mark Wieder
Andre, Dar- You may find some useful information in the notes to bug 1242. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscriptio

Re: Calling external support functions from other threads

2012-07-17 Thread Andre Garzia
I can only speak for external sdk for mac os x and linux where if you try SendCardMessage from a different thread you're dead. There is an odd scenario where the first subthread is able to call SendCardMessage but ones spawned after that are not. I have an webserver external that uses a pool of p

Calling external support functions from other threads

2012-07-17 Thread Dar Scott
The wisdom that I have inherited is that all support functions in the externals library must be called only from an external function or command called from LiveCode. That is, they are not thread safe. Others and I have repeated this. If an external has multiple threads then some thread-sav