Month: April 2013

Promises/A+ implementation in Sciter2

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The Promises, as a concept, is generalization of callback mechanism. This pattern is quite popular these days so Sciter2 SDK contains now (sdk/samples/+promise/) pretty simple (60 lines of code) implementation of the Promises. The promise is an object that: maintins list/chain of callback function pairs [onsuccess:function, onfailure:function] by providing .then(onsuccess, onfailure) method; promise object provides…

Sciter UI, basic principles. Calling code behind UI from worker threads.

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I’ve updated the SDK with new sample: /sdk/demos/ui-framework . This sample demonstrates principles outlined in “Sciter UI, application architecture” article. In particular it demonstrates definition of native function (view.execTask() -> window::exec_task()) and call of UI methods (callbacks in this sample) from worker threads. I’ve explained idea of calling UI code from worker threads in this…