Background tasks, UI unresponsive

Classic Servoy
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I want to execute a background task and while the task is executing, the UI is unresponsive. Do you have a solution?

The setup is the following:
I’ve used the scheduler plugin to execute the task in background. The plugin calls a global method that handles the background task. The method downloads and stores on disk many images. The process can last a few minutes and during that time the UI is not really usable. By the way, the task does not update the GUI at all.

What I would like is to execute this task in its own thread. I’m wondering if the UI is slowed because the method executes in the javascript thread…

2

The method downloads and stores on disk many images

That is a task for the Data Stream plug-in. It will do exactly what you want!

More info can be found here: http://www.it2be.com/plugins.htm#datastream

3

Well, I wanted to know if Servoy is able to do this out of the box. May be there is something that I don’t know.

I’m myself a Java developer, so I can build a plugin to do this in no time.

4

I don’t know if they do but it kinda make sense that methods run in 1 thread. You don’t want one method to set a global and use it further along the method and another method change it as well along the way.
This is just one example but I can think of many others.

5

So the answer is: No, Servoy can’t do it?

6

That is the answer indeed…