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Backgrounding tasks so they won't delay UI interaction
I'd like to be able to run a background process posting and fetching content from urls, but I don't want that to pause or delay the UI from loading (because neither of these are critical to the UI displaying and could potentially take some time to complete). Is there a way to execute a function in the background so it doesn't delay any user interactions?
Re: Backgrounding tasks so they won't delay UI interaction
Roku is single-threaded. So if you use the same message port for everything and keep it in focus throughout all your subroutines, then you could do it with asynchronous calls.
Re: Backgrounding tasks so they won't delay UI interaction
You can look at the async operations of the rourltransfer And texture manager You just have to check their Ports from time to time
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