Hit a simple URL with code?

Create an RoURLTransfer object, and set it's port to the same port as your videoscreen. Give your wait statement a time like 100 milliseconds instead of 0. Add a check for the returned value, for example:

Function showVideoScreen(episode As Object)

    if type(episode) <> "roAssociativeArray" then
        print "invalid data passed to showVideoScreen"
        return -1
    endif

    port = CreateObject("roMessagePort")
    screen = CreateObject("roVideoScreen")
    screen.SetMessagePort(port)

    screen.SetPositionNotificationPeriod(30)
    screen.SetContent(episode)

here is the URL Transfer setup:

     xfer=createobject("roURLTransfer")
     xfer.seturl("http://myserver.com/check.php")
     xfer.setport(port)
     xfer.asyncgettostring()


    screen.Show()

    'Uncomment his line to dump the contents of the episode to be played
    'PrintAA(episode)

then the while loop with a non-zero wait time (here, i've set it to 100 milliseconds), and I've made it the first message-type check:

    while true
        msg = wait(100, port)
        if type(msg)="roUrlEvent" then
              str=msg.getstring()
              print "************returned url data************"
              print str
        else if type(msg) = "roVideoScreenEvent" then
        ?"******************************************MESSAGE**********************************"
  	?"message:";msg.getmessage();" Type:";msg.gettype();" Index:"; msg.getindex();" data:";msg.getdata();" playback pos? ";msg.isplaybackposition()
  	?"******************************************MESSAGE**********************************"
            'print "showHomeScreen | msg = "; msg.getMessage() " | index = "; msg.GetIndex()
            if msg.isScreenClosed()
                print "Screen closed"
                exit while
            elseif msg.isRequestFailed()
                print "Video request failure: "; msg.GetIndex(); " " msg.GetData() 
            elseif msg.isStatusMessage()
                print "Video status: "; msg.GetIndex(); " " msg.GetData() 
            elseif msg.isButtonPressed()
                print "Button pressed: "; msg.GetIndex(); " " msg.GetData()
            elseif msg.isPlaybackPosition() then
                nowpos = msg.GetIndex()
                RegWrite(episode.ContentId, nowpos.toStr())
            else if msg.isStatusMessage() then 
            ?"status message"
            ?"message:";msg.getmessage();" Type:";msg.gettype();" Index:"; msg.getindex();" data:";msg.getdata()
            else if msg.isstreamstarted() then
            ?"StreamStarted"
            ?"message:";msg.getmessage();" Type:";msg.gettype();" Index:"; msg.getindex();" data:";msg.getdata()
            else
                print "Unexpected event type: "; msg.GetType()
            end if
        end if
    end while

End Function

This way, you can have multiple things going on - video is playing and, you are also checking for a URL Event.

- Joel