On Jan 30, 2008, at 2:39 PM, James Sentman wrote:
>
> On Jan 30, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Joe Strout wrote:
>
>> Yow. Those are the things you should consider using threads for;
>> they're much easier than what you're currently doing (and probably
>> provide a better user experience, too).
>
> So what you're telling me is that at some point over the last 6 or 7
> years Threads got all fixed up wonderfully and I can actually consider
> them a tool I can use now ;) OK I will do that! It used to be that if
> you touched the interface from a thread horrid things would happen...
> I shall have to experiment!
You still should not touch the interface from a thread, but doing so
shouldn't cause your app to blow up. Threads + sockets remains a
risky combination.
Charles Yeomans
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