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Re: Porting to VM [message #37305 is a reply to message #37301]

Wed, 10 December 2003 19:19

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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JD Smith writes:

> I've been trying to get a large application working in the new IDLVM, and
> have run into trouble: apparently, in all calls like:
>
> XManager, /NO_BLOCK
>
> the NO_BLOCK is ignored, and the call blocks anyway. I suppose this makes
> sense, since IDL's non-blocking functionality is provided by the
> command-line, which isn't there in the VM. Why would you care about
> blocking if there's no command line to interact with? For my purposes,
> the distinction between blocking and non-blocking is whether calls which
> invoke XManager return immediately, or wait until the managed widget
> dies. This isn't mentioned in the "Restrictions" on the VM FAQ page.
> Anyone managed to deal with this issue?

In SAVE files I've made recently, I've had to add
JUST_REG keywords to all the XMANAGER calls before the
last one, which will block and get everything else
going.

Cheers,

David

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		Re: Porting to VM By: David Fanning on Thu, 11 December 2003 11:53
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		Re: Porting to VM By: JD Smith on Thu, 11 December 2003 08:55
		Re: Porting to VM By: David Fanning on Wed, 10 December 2003 19:19

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