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ADOBE DIRECTOR BASICS Asynchronous programming property pTimeout on new(me) vName = "
ADOBE DIRECTOR BASICS Asynchronous programming on createCountdown() vTimeout = timeout().new("Countdown", 1000, #Countdown, 10) vTimeout.time = the milliseconds end createCountdown on Countdown(aRemaining, aTimeout) put aRemaining if not aRemaining then aTimeout.forget() end if aTimeout.target = aRemaining - 1 end Countdown When you call createCountdown(), it sets the target of the new timeout object to the integer 10. The Countdown() handler receives this value as the first parameter and then modifies the target value of the timeout. The result is a countdown from 10 to 0, printed out in the Message window. The target value can be any Lingo type, including a list or a property list. In general, keep the following in mind: When using a reference to a script instance as a target, the target handler in that particular script instance is called. This technique does not allow the use of custom properties. When using a reference to anything other than a script instance (such as a property list) as a target, the target handler in a movie script is called. This technique allows the use of custom properties. Downloading data from a remote server Sometimes, in your projects, you may need to retrieve a file that is located on a remote server. Your end users will not be able to use the contents of that file until a copy of the file is downloaded onto their computers. This topic describes the concepts in retrieving data from a remote server and explains how to retrieve data in an asynchronous operation. Downloading or preloading If your movie is playing back as a Shockwave application inside a browser, you will not have any access to the enduser's local disks. The local copy of the file will be written into the browser's cache folder, but your Shockwave movie will not be able to know what file path is used. This process is known as preloading. For preloading, use the preloadNetThing() method. If your movie is playing in <strong>Director</strong>'s authoring environment or in a projector, you can have direct access to the enduser's local disks (or at least to those folders for which the current user has write privileges). In this case, you can specify a path to a file in a local folder to which the remote file will be downloaded. You can use the downloadNetThing () method in this case. You can also use preloadNetThing(), if you do not wish to specify a local file path. In this case, the local copy of the file will be stored in <strong>Director</strong>'s cache. If your application makes a preloadNetThing() request for the file a second time, the cached version will be used by default. getNetText and postNetText You may want to send data to a remote server, and to retrieve confirmation that it was successfully received. The confirmation may be quite a lengthy text. For example, you may send a username and a password to a remote server, and receive in return a set of waiting messages that have been stored in a database. Last updated 8/26/2011 436
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