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Re: Socket Taking Over. Need a Thread?

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Subject: Re: Socket Taking Over. Need a Thread?
From: Christopher Jett <lists at jettfuel dot net>
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:58:37 -0600
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On Dec 29, 2007, at 10:49 PM, Tim Hare wrote:

> I don't think that a thread would help you.  I think the only way  
> to keep
> the app responsive is to reduce the size of packets you are  
> transferring.
> That will allow the socket to yield more frequently to the UI.
>
> Tim

Yeah - I'm discovering that even using a thread to poll and read from  
the socket yields the app unresponsive just as before.  Why are  
sockets this way? Is there no way to make a socket that is receiving  
data from a client yield time to the rest of the application?
--
Chris Jett
chris at jettfuel dot net
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