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nikp
asynchronous LoadStrings?
Jun 9th, 2009, 9:34am  
As we now have the cool asynchronous RequestImage() is there a asynchronous LoadStrings either available or on the way?   I am using these to interrogate a web site were LoadStrings is giving me the user data file which i parse to extract images then use requestImage to grab the images for me.  

Any help much appreciated..

kindest

nik
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Scott Murray
Re: asynchronous LoadStrings?
Reply #1 - Jun 9th, 2009, 11:41am  
Even if there's no handy asynchronous method built-in, you could always create your own threads, as needed.  See this tutorial:

http://www.shiffman.net/teaching/a2z/threads/
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NoahBuddy
Re: asynchronous LoadStrings?
Reply #2 - Jun 9th, 2009, 12:09pm  
While it may not be the best way, I have done this with a Vector class, createInput, and remembering a few booleans.

Keep track of what state the program is in with booleans (started, fileopened, filefinished, etc).

Then, in draw(), read a string from the inputStream.

I used a Vector because it is thread safe and can be read between the calls to the file.

If you are interested, I can give an example (but I will have to extract it from another program).
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