Re: GUI is non-responsive during a long database interaction

In article <vqcudn$346r4$1@dont-email.me>, Rich  <rich@example.invalid> wrote:

Alan Grunwald <nospam.nurdglaw@gmail.com> wrote:

In the meantime, I tried to execute the database interaction in a
separate thread (?) by running it as an [after idle] script but this
didn't have the desired effect

>
An after idle script is not a "separate thread", as you've now
discovered.
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For real threads, use the 'thread' extension:
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https://www.tcl-lang.org/man/tcl/ThreadCmd/thread.htm
>

Alternately you could send the queries to a seperate process
connected by a pipe and use I/O fileevents to keep your main process
from blocking.
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