Re: what do you actually use threads for?

[Dave Shirk <dave at pamlicosounds dot com>]

On Jan 30, 2008, at 2:39 PM, James Sentman wrote:

> 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!
>
> Thanks,
>  James


James,

They are working great for me.  The 3 Threads I created yesterday,  
handle off site data fetches, 1 via TelNet, and the other 2 via  
HTTP.Get.  I need the main GUI interface to stay responsive while  
these fetches take place, and it works great.

Dave Shirk (The Thread about Threads guy ;-)

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