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Travonisoft's avatar
Travonisoft
Visitor
11 years ago

Is AsyncGetToFile truly Async if you have to wait on a port?

I have been developing for roku for several months now and one thing still boggles my mind. Why name a method AsyncGetToFile if it is truly not Asynchronous? If i have to create a message port and...
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squirreltown
Roku Guru
11 years ago
"Travonisoft" wrote:
If you don't use the wait function then you will never get the image.t

Not true. Use different ports for the texmanager and the UI, listen for the texmanager events in the UI loop, and use port.getmessage() not wait.