ActionScript 3.0 :: "Pause" Code Execution, And Wait For Result?
Apr 17, 2009
Visual Studio had a command "showDialog()" which allowed you to show your form as a dialog box on the screen. The advantage to this was that the code calling the dialog box would pause, stopping execution entirely until the dialog box closed. The benefit was you could write your code as follows (made "actionscriptey"):
Code:
var result:DialogResult = form1.showDialog();
if (result == DialogResult.OK)
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