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jwray's avatar
jwray
Visitor
14 years ago

video screen events while paused

Hi,

Is there anyway to continue to receive and process video screen events while playback is paused?

Or, from a functional point of view, I need to send a 'ping' request to a server to say 'hi, still here' to avoid the server session timing out and killing itself. Any way I can achieve this while a video screen is paused?

thanks
Jonny
Roku Developer Program

2 Replies

  • RokuChris's avatar
    RokuChris
    Roku Employee
    14 years ago
    roVideoScreen doesn't generate any events while paused. If there's stuff you need to do periodically within an event loop, you can pass a non-zero value to the Wait() function (section 7.2 of the BrightScript Reference Manual), which will cause it to timeout and return an invalid value.
  • jwray's avatar
    jwray
    Visitor
    14 years ago
    Thanks, appreciate the pointer, worked a charm.

    Jonny