Re: JavaScript concurrency issues & initialization delay

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Forest Bond wrote:
> I think it might just be a bug.  I've attached the logfile.
> 
> It's definitely not releated to setTimeout, because I hit the same issue with or
> without that call.  What's interesting is that I can make the problem go away by
> placing an alert(...) call after calling Stop().  I don't know why that would
> be.
> 
> My code is doing something like this:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> if(mplayer.isplaying()) {
>   mplayer.Stop();
>   while(mplayer.playState != 1) {
>     ;
>   }
> }
> //alert('after Stop: ' + mplayer.playState);
> 
> mplayer.Open(new_url);
> 
> mplayer.Play();
> while(mplayer.playState != 3) {
>   ;
> }
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> As I mentioned above, uncommenting that alert(...) call makes the problem go
> away.  Very strange.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> -Forest

I agree that it is really odd.. have you tried putting a "sleep" inside
the while loop? I'm not sure if javascript has that or not, but if so
then maybe there and then maybe one more after the loop is done. I think
100usec should be enough.

Kevin

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