WISH: Even further simplified usages...

[Cynikal]

I realize with things such as like, your Httputils, etc..it is simplified from the initial library... But... I would like to see it more along the lines of like how it is in .NET...


Example,

Dim b as bitmap ("http://urltobitmap.com/this.jpg")

Dim this as string = This.DownloadString("http://theurltothis.com/string.txt")


Reasoning:

A LOT of times, I have to pull just 1 line from a site, and its quite small... It's kinda a pain and can even get confusing to set up subs and such for it, then have each of the subs work in order...


With your HTTPutils, you have to download the pages first then get the info from them... which is all nice and all, but also, still somewhat of a pain.

 

[Erel]

Android shows the "application not responding" dialog when the application is not responding for longer than 5 seconds. This means that you cannot do any blocking call like this. It can take longer than 5 seconds just to connect to the site, even if you only want to download a single byte.

 

[Cynikal]

Is there no api to extend the length of the timeout?

 

[Erel]

You cannot extend the timeout length. There are ways around it (like done in the debugger for example) but they add a lot of complexity.