[news.eclipse.platform] Re: My RCP application start up changed from 3.2

[ian.leslie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Ian Leslie)]

Ed Merks wrote:

> Ian,

> If you change the sleep from 200, which is a very short time of .2 
> seconds, to something like 20000 or even 60000, does the GUI not come up 
> until that time has completely expired?

Yes, changing that value to a higher value caused the GUI to come up 
before the thread was finished.  By setting it to 50000 I was able to see 
the GUI come up in 49s and my background work continued after that.

I am still not sure what changed; but having the GUI come up and the work 
go on in the background is how I want it to work.  I think I will take 
Snjezana's advice 
(http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/article.php?id=71692&group=eclipse.platform#71692) 
and look a the Jobs API.

Thanks,

Ian