John: Good idea, I¹ll look into threads and hopefully it will work.
On 4/4/09 6:37 PM, "john chen" <johnchen...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can try to do that task in another thread. > > John > > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Pierce Freeman <piercefreema...@comcast.net> > 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) >> >> Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. >> Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com >> <http://lists.apple.com> >> >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/johnchen202%40gmail.com >> >> This email sent to johnchen...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
