[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Avoiding killing slow-starting applications

[From: Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri]

On 10/21/05, Toni Willberg <toniw at iki.fi> wrote:
> Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > My application takes a long time to train itself from its initial data
> > set, which is done before any widgets are displayed. This seems to make
> > the application launcher unhappy, and it gets killed just as it's
> > starting. How can I avoid this happening?
> >
>
> First tought is to modify your application to display something before
> it reads the data in...

Please use a thread to load your data. Other wise user may think that
it broke/hang!

You can do something like:

display: loading data
launch a thread to load data
join thread (wait it to finish)
display: data loaded
show your screen

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