Calling service sub from activity

[thedesolatesoul]

Hi,
Is it possible to call a sub in a service from an activity?
I want to set up some data in cumbersome structures and dont want to burden my main activity with it.
If not, should I just add a code module and call the helper functions there to set up global variables in the service.

Also, on pulling data from a service. The service cannot callsub a sub in a code module, but can callsub an activity module?

Thanks.

 

[kickaha]

The answers are yes and yes.

To quote from the service modules thread:

However an activity can access a running service and a service can access a running activity.

 

[thedesolatesoul]

Yes. My bad!
I was expecting the subs to appear after i pressed the (dot) operator.
I have to use callsub!
But how do I pass more than 2 arguments?

 

[Erel]

You are limited to two arguments. However you can create your own custom type which includes many fields and then pass it.

 

[thedesolatesoul]

Thanks, thats the obvious soloution!
Another question about services,
when an activity is paused but the service is running, what is the status of a code module? Is it also out of memory with the activity?

 

[Erel]

Code modules are always "active".

 

[thedesolatesoul]

That is good to know.
Maybe worth putting most of the objects and glue logic in code modules rather than activity or service.
But unfortunately you cannot callsub and code module sub, so some logic has to go in the activity.
Thanks!

 

[Erel]

But unfortunately you cannot callsub and code module sub

There is no need to use CallSub with code modules. You can directly call their subs.

 

[thedesolatesoul]

Hmm...then I misinterpreted this line from the services

Note that it is not possible to use CallSub to access subs of a Code module.

That makes perfect sense then!
Activity contains UI, Service does all background work, Code module does glue logic and interfacing.
Awesome.
Thanks!!!