Fork(), Wait(10), Refresh()

[tmiranda]

Gents,

In the default STV I see many times when the screen needs refreshing that instead of just calling Refresh(), the STV Forks a thread and then does the Refresh() in the forked thread. Why?

Thanks,

Tom

[PLUCKYHD]

There is a sticky at the top of studio forum on this one. In version 6.0 there was a problem where you had to call fork() before a refresh in certain areas. It is fixed in later versions and I believe they are probably left over from that if I where guessing...

[Opus4]

No, it has nothing to do with that sticky, which was only referring to certain Hooks.

A Fork() followed by a short Wait() is used to allow other code to continue before doing a refresh, closing a 2nd options menu, and so on. For example: it allows CloseOptionsMenu() to close the current dialog before closing the next one after the fork/wait so that they close in sequence instead of appearing to close at the same time.

I didn't do a search for all those fork/wait combos just now, but I didn't think there were many that did nothing but a refresh after the wait.

- Andy