On 4 Oct 2006, at 23:04, Richard Gaskin wrote:
What sorts of tasks would threading be essential for?
Well, one thing that leaps to mind immediately - stopping the entire application freezing up when executing a lengthy shell script or AppleScript.
I know there are workarounds with shell scripts - piping the output to a text file and checking that in a loop - but for AppleScript your only current options involve running a separate application in the background. :-(
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