On 20 Sep 2011, at 17:56, Larry White wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Final question, does Pharo always block on IO? My impression was that all > > Smalltalks did at one time, but that some (visualworks? squeak?) had fixed > > that years ago. > > Pharo typically blocks when the main or UI thread is doing something, which > includes IO. You can perfectly do all kinds of things in other threads. Check > the process monitor or try some multithreaded server. > > > Thanks Sven, > I tried sending the email by wrapping the code in a block and sending fork to > the block, but the image was still frozen until it returned. Is that the > wrong way to do it? > > thanks again.
I need more information and code that I can execute in order to try to help you. Sven
