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kyleabaker
Level 7
‎04-26-2014 02:42 PM

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?
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destruk
Level 10
‎04-26-2014 02:45 PM

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.
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NewManLiving
Level 8
‎04-26-2014 03:16 PM

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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