Re: Quitting an application

[Sujith <m sujith gmail com>]

G Hasse writes:
> This is a quite common problem in GUI design. How do you syncronize 
> between a long job and a short fast one (as quitting). The first answer 
> is that you should not do any long jobs. You should split the long work
> in small ones, and let every other job have the ability to run. 
> Alternative you could make a coprocess to read the DB and when the work
> is done you get the result in one "operation". 
>
> Well - the real answer is - it could be difficult. You might turn to 
> some syncronization mechanism or maybee threads...

Thanks. I guess I have to rethink my design then. :)

Sujith