Interesting. Thanks. I've always wanted to incorporate threading but it was never a realistic option pre-.NET.
-----Original Message----- From: dotnet discussion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of franklin gray Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 5:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Loading forms Well, the spawning of a new thread isn't that hard, just dealing with all the little things such as showing the right cursor, dealing with the case that if a user closes the form before the retrieval thread is done and so on. -----Original Message----- From: Dan Souk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 5:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Loading forms How much is a lot? -----Original Message----- From: dotnet discussion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of franklin gray Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 5:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DOTNET] Loading forms Just out of curiousity, does anybody use a different thread to retrieve data to populate a form besides me? I like how it doesn't bogg down the UI thread and forms paint better, but it's a lot more work. Just curious. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.