FileSystem.findFiles(var directory, String wildcard, bool recursive)

[Lindon]

So I'm using this call...or trying to....

sadly it takes a few seconds to return the array of file names....so really it would be better to have this

FileSystem.findFiles(var directory, String wildcard, bool recursive, function(){

})

but meanwhile... how is every one dealing with the waiting game - a timer?

[Christoph Hart]

No, actually that's a good request, since the scripting engine is not supposed to wait for multiple seconds (which is why all of those things require an asynchronous function call).

I just wasn't aware that this operation might take more time, because I only tested it with small amounts of files, but I can imagine that it will take a bit if you have thousands of files (or if you have a slow USB drive or whatever)

[Lindon]

@christoph-hart said in FileSystem.findFiles(var directory, String wildcard, bool recursive):

No, actually that's a good request, since the scripting engine is not supposed to wait for multiple seconds (which is why all of those things require an asynchronous function call).

I just wasn't aware that this operation might take more time, because I only tested it with small amounts of files, but I can imagine that it will take a bit if you have thousands of files (or if you have a slow USB drive or whatever)

Yeah - Im testing on a "slow USB drive" to make sure I catch this sort of thing...

[d.healey]

My vote is for the callback, breaking change is okay with me