Re: Request.cancel doesn't work for me!

Me again,

just tried to make the imExpensive-method less complex, but still no
success.

The Request is not cancelled ... What am I doing wrong?

Thanks
Tom

On Nov 29, 6:16 pm, newnoise <tommmuel...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on an GWT-App displaying a map with different layers.
> Some of those layers are drawn just on request and just for the part
> of the map which is currently displayed.
>
> The Problem occurs if a user moves and zooms the map pretty fast, so
> that a lot of pictures have to be drawn. This results in quite a time
> of waiting when he finally stops. What I tried was to cancel the
> request using Request.cancel (the Async Method returns Request instead
> of void), but all the pictures are drawn anyway.
>
> How does the Request.cancel-method work? Is it just blocking the
> Callback? Or does it actually cancel the running code on server-side?
> Maybe the problem is, that the specific method contains mainly one
> complex method-call? The specific method-scheme looks like:
>
> public Boolean update() {
> int a = 2;
> int b = 3;
>
> int x = imExpensive(a,b); // method which needs like 95% of
> calculating time
>
> if (x>0) return true;
> return false;
>
> }
>
> I suppose that the Request.cancel-method does not cancel a running
> method, and stops the method right after imExpensive(). Is that right?
> In that case the problem could be solved by making the method
> imExpensive less complex, which would be a pretty doable task ...
>
> Thanks a lot!
> Tom

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