Re: Beachball on Lengthy Task
Re: Beachball on Lengthy Task
- Subject: Re: Beachball on Lengthy Task
- From: Pierce Freeman <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:14:07 -0700
- Thread-topic: Beachball on Lengthy Task
Hey Ryan:
I have heard of threads before, but am just looking into them now to see if
they will work.
On 4/4/09 6:40 PM, "Ryan Joseph" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Are you aware of threading or run loops? There is no problem here, you must
> share the processor with OS X. Read about those concepts and come back later
> with questions. ;)
>
> On Apr 5, 2009, at 8:08 AM, Pierce Freeman 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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> Regards,
> Josef
>
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