On Apr 04, 2007, at 18:23 UTC, Daniel Stenning wrote:

> It does seem to me a little "overkill" to have to write the code to
> spawn an extra thread just to handle what is essentially a single
> threaded task that merely needs to update the screen once in a while 
> ( if that is what your article proposes ).

Does it?  That's odd.  It seems perfectly normal and appropriate to me.
That *is* the correct way to do what you're describing.

> Its not as my app needs to be running several processes at once.

No, but it does need to be running two threads at once: one to do the
processing, and one to service the UI.

Best,
- Joe

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