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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  October 2012 Accepted Answer

  Well Gideros has only one thread, and Timer etc are kind of emulate multiple threads, but it's still single.
  
  As you can see here:
  http://www.giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/1135/mobile-server#Item_9
  I have ran into similar problem wanting a separate thread, but if you look at the next post and it's video, problem was solved without separate thread.

  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• ktc Member

  October 2012

  Additional question, if the additional thread is not possible, the only way to check these sockets would be a frequent polling. Is there a way to do this fully asynchronously, such as setting an event and let this function called on that event handler.
  

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  October 2012

  @ktc yes, this way is called Timer, Timer is an object which is called with provided frequency, which kind of emulates separate thread.
  
  Here is more information on implementing sockets in Gideros
  
  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile/Using-LuaSocket-in-Gideros
  
  I actually forgot about this link or would have provided it to you sooner

  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• ktc Member

  October 2012

  This is again polling. My primary concern is as follows. Say i will receive a rather large file. I cannot trust the underlying network stack to buffer data until the next poll (timer event). Can I ?

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  October 2012

  I haven't experimented with large files so can't say for sure, but firstly, I think, there is an underlying buffer (just don't know how big) and secondly, when you receive a new message from a client, you can try to read everything the client have sent.
  But this kind of question should probably be asked to creators of LuaSocket or simply experimented with

  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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