Re: Timer issue?

Thanks for the idea, Giulio.

Actually, the same timer is used in refreshing the UI interface. But I 
will try what you're suggesting and let you know.

Jean-Luc Arnaud

Le 01/08/2018 à 14:06, giulio-yFZTWCmGK/pWk0Htik3J/[email protected] a écrit :
> Hi Jean-Luc,
>
> did you try to set the timer period to a considerably longer interval?
>
> just to understand if in the 10 milliseconds (that’s really a short 
> interval maybe also for a computer), the timer event is fired again 
> before completing its tasks, including set itself to off…
>
> you could try maybe a quarter of second, that anyway is nothing if you 
> are handling a series of files sequentially
>
> just a guess,
>
>  Giulio
>
> Giulio Mastrosanti
> *BitBazar srl*
> 06 39737052 / 06 39725787
> Il 1 ago 2018, 12:43 +0200, Jean-Luc Arnaud 
> <jean-luc-E/[email protected]>, ha scritto:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm using a timer in order to terminate a thread treatment:
>>
>> - When finished, the thread sets a flag to True and terminates 
>> (verified),
>>
>> - In the Timer (with a period of 10), when the flag is on, the timer
>> sets itself to off and then calls a method selecting the next file to be
>> treated.
>>
>> Globally, this works but sometimes, I'm getting a "File already opened"
>> error that I send when this method tries to open the same file that is
>> already opened. This should never happen !!! It's like the method is
>> called again whereas it has already opened a new file and tries to
>> reopen it ! I have verified that this is always a new file, never the
>> last treated file.
>>
>> Here is what I'm getting raising a Runtime error when this happens:
>>
>> RuntimeRaiseException
>> MainWindow.MainWindow.Next_File%%o<MainWindow.MainWindow>
>> MainWindow.MainWindow.Refresh_Timer_Action%%o<MainWindow.MainWindow>o<Timer>
>> XojoFramework$13892
>> __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_TIMER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__
>> __CFRunLoopDoTimer
>> __CFRunLoopDoTimers
>> __CFRunLoopRun
>> CFRunLoopRunSpecific
>> RunCurrentEventLoopInMode
>> ReceiveNextEventCommon
>> _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter
>> _DPSNextEvent
>> -[NSApplication(NSEvent)
>> _nextEventMatchingEventMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:]
>> XojoFramework$4483
>> XojoFramework$4484
>> Application._CallFunctionWithExceptionHandling%%o<Application>p
>> _Z33CallFunctionWithExceptionHandlingPFvvE
>> XojoFramework$4483
>> -[NSApplication run]
>> RuntimeRun
>> REALbasic._RuntimeRun
>> _Main
>> main
>>
>> Can you help me understand what's happening ?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> --
>> Jean-Luc Arnaud
>>