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Chmava
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Posted: 14th Mar 2019 07:09
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Will AppGameKit finally have multitreading support to split up its main thread?

Or will AppGameKit team be like the crysis team and go: In 2 years, there will be 8ghz cpu! So we dump all our AI and world process on a single thread!
That clearly did not happen...

I mean, it does not need to be fully automated and handle by agk, the programmer could handle thread joining manually.

Any discussion appreciated!
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Ortu
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Posted: 14th Mar 2019 17:35
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At the very least can we please get async / background media loading!!!
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Kevin Cross
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Posted: 14th Mar 2019 17:38 Edited at: 14th Mar 2019 17:45
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You can run ASync in the background without needing the while loop they show in the examples that freezes the app for a moment while it's waiting for a response. I have it in my app. I don't have ASync media downloading yet but suspect it would be done the same way. I'll be doing it for downloading user profile avatars.

I've updated the code since I shared it ages ago but here was the basic idea for running HTTP ASync requests in the background without freezing the app in anyway. And it allows you to queue ASync requests.

https://forum.thegamecreators.com/thread/222766

I can pull together a more final version that I'm using now if it helps anyone. I may also include it in my OryUI framework at a later date if I can simplify it even more.
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Ortu
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You can async the download to file system yes, you can't async loading it to an image/object/sound

img1 = loadImage("file1.png")
Img2 = loadimage("file2.jpg")

2 won't begin until 1 is complete
Nothing else can run until both are complete

Async / background would ideally allow both load in parallel but at minimum even loading them synchronously in the background should not block the rest of the application.
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Kevin Cross
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Ok sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you referring to downloading files/images from a server in the background.
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Rick Nasher
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This has my +1 .
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DavidAGK
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Ditto +1
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Started coding with AMOS (Thanks Francois Lionet)
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blink0k
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It will never happen if it's not added to github
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Furord
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+1 very necessary to keep growing, that and the ftp commands.
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Chmava
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Posted: 27th Mar 2019 06:56 Edited at: 27th Mar 2019 06:57
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To be clear, the last few post was talking about multi-threading support... right?

Infact, this should have been first as everything, including the scene editor should be build off every other function and code.

Could someone post it on github or something?
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