Re: [openvrml-develop] Status update: modularization

[Josip A. <jo...@vr...>]

Braden McDaniel wrote:
> 
> Right. Scripts block--period. It doesn't matter if they're in another
> thread--all that means is that a request is dispatched to the script
> thread and the rendering thread has to wait on it to be processed.

Right. AFAIK this is just as other browsers do.

> Maybe not. Or not quite, anyway.
> 
> I ought to spawn a new thread to download the script code, at the very
> least; I don't want to have the rendering thread block on that. I
> *could* just keep that thread running and run the script in it and do
> the active object thing.

Right.

> I've had a brief look; nothing there jumped out at me as being something
> I needed. But I'm still pretty naive about a lot of this. Though it has
> occurred to me that if I ever want to do something like display download
> progress for this stuff, I'll presumably need to implement my own
> URLStreamHandler. Joy.

:)
I think you can safelly assume that scripts are small and there's no 
need to display progress bar.

Regards...