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async load function #45

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quinton-ashley opened this issue Jun 19, 2024 · 1 comment
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async load function #45

quinton-ashley opened this issue Jun 19, 2024 · 1 comment
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An async function simply named load could be used to load any file or multiple files asynchronously and return a promise.

This will be implemented in q5-util.js The q5 setup function is already async.

This idea was suggested by @mattdesl and iterated on by @mvicky2592 in this p5.js issue discussion. I also think keeping the preload system for backwards compatibility and ease of use for beginners is the right idea though.
processing/p5.js#6767

@quinton-ashley quinton-ashley added the enhancement New feature or request label Jun 20, 2024
DipakKhade pushed a commit to DipakKhade/q5.js that referenced this issue Jul 24, 2024
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quinton-ashley commented Jul 24, 2024

@DipakKhade Thanks for the PR! But please comment on an issue before trying to implement a feature though.

The implementation of load(...args) should use Promise.all. Also it should be able to load many types of files, not just text and json. It would need to be a function added to instances of Q5 not Q5 itself, in order to access other loading functions.

After examining the p5 feature request again more closely, I'm a bit confused myself about how they plan to support loading images, video, and sounds with this one method. I suppose it could wrap preload functions like loadImage and loadSound in a promise. What do you think of that idea?

I also think we need to figure out a way for addon developers to add support to q5 load for loading additional file types but that could be added after an initial implementation is done.

@quinton-ashley quinton-ashley moved this to Todo in q5 Sep 25, 2024
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