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Re: Beachball on Lengthy Task
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Re: Beachball on Lengthy Task


  • Subject: Re: Beachball on Lengthy Task
  • From: john chen <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 20:37:29 -0500

You can try to do that task in another thread.
John

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Pierce Freeman
<email@hidden>wrote:

> Hi everyone:
>
> I am getting the beachball of death when I try to run an action that takes
> over a few seconds to complete.  Given, the beachball goes away after the
> task is completed - But for lengthy tasks, why can't I just allow the user
> to go along with their work instead of having them wait with the beachball?
> Would this be a problem with memory management, or something else entirely?
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Pierce Freeman
>
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