timeout parameter for net-receive-udp

[HPW]

Can net-receive-udp get a additional parameter 'timeout' ?



Then it wood listen to incomming UDP, but when timeout is reached it wood come back from the call with some return-message.



Problem: When I call the function from the DLL the app becomes busy and blocked. It wood be nice to get the control back in a time-interval and restart it when needed.



Discussion here:

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[Lutz]

I think it can be done, will look into it,



Lutz

[HPW]

>I think it can be done, will look into it,



Thanks for that, another idea would be to use newLISP.EXE as a seperate process to get a always active message-receiver which runs independent of the main-process. The message-receiver buffers the incoming messages in files and the mainprocess can read them when it has time for this action.



I will that give a try too.

[HPW]

I have made a new EXE with (link ) with a UdpListener.

This I can start hidden from neobook and it logs all incoming messages inside a choosable Directory.



I think this is more elegant, since the risk of loosing incoming messages is smaller.

[Lutz]

development version newLISP 8.0.7 has an optional timeout parameter in net-receive-udp



Lutz

[HPW]

Thanks Lutz,



I will give it a try!

[newdep]

Great extention, great enhancement.. Thanks...