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Travonisoft
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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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TheEndless
Roku Guru
11 years ago
"Travonisoft" wrote:
So if this is the case, and I have 30+ images to load would you recommend having a pool of roURLRequestTransfer objects that I create and then alloc use for one for each image needed whenever I need?

If they all need to be downloaded asynchronously, then you'd either need to create a separate request for each, or create a block of 5-10 that you re-use after the previous transfer completes.