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Re: Open Handler, when is it called?

Subject: Re: Open Handler, when is it called?
From: Greg Guerin <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 16:47:48 -0700

Steve Roy <email@hidden> wrote:

>At the start of my application, I initialize the things I need (including
>the two open handlers), then I enter a loop which calls Thread.sleep() until
>the openHandlerCalled flag is set to true. When the loop exits, I am 100%
>certain if I need to open a blank document or not. :)

Rather than a loop, use wait() and notify(). If you feel obligated to wake
up at the end of some "can't possibly happen" period of time, then use the
wait(long) method to get the effect of a timeout alarm.

-- GG

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