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jwray
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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
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RokuChris
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Re: video screen events while paused

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.
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jwray
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Re: video screen events while paused

Thanks, appreciate the pointer, worked a charm.

Jonny
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