running a process in the background

[Brian Yennie]

Chris,

This would still require inserting code, but it may be useful to look 
into:
wait for 1 milliseconds with messages

The [with messages] piece will actually allow other handlers to 
execute, so you could, for example, have a timed update script firing 
at every "wait" message. It would still require code insertion, but 
maybe just a sprinkling of 1 liners with a separate update script 
running.

This is a little like basic threading, as the wait command gives a 
"yield" that lets other messages fire.

Hope that helps-

Brian


> On 3/28/06 12:01 PM, "Chris Sheffield" <cmsheffield at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Ken.  Unfortunately that didn't quite do the trick for me.
>> My situation seems a little bit different from that explained in this
>> link.  I tried adapting it to work for me but couldn't quite get
>> there.  No matter what I try, once the report building process starts
>> I can't do anything else.  And this is a lot of code executing.  So
>> going into it at this point and putting in some kind of command here
>> and there to update my modal dialog would be a lot of work.  I think
>> this is a situation where threads would come in handy.
>>
>> Anyway, thanks for the idea, but got any others?  :-)