Re: Long running functions in javascript?

Peter,

Have you looked at nsIRDFXMLObserver/nsIRDFXMLSink? These do a similar 
thing for RDF datasources, perhaps there is something for plain XML that 
implements nsIObserver...

-Adam

Peter Wilson wrote:
> Can Javascript put long running processes into another thread so that
> they don't block the UI thread?
> 
> Can such a thread update a progress meter on the UI?
> 
> I have found references to proxies, eventQueues etc. but no actual code.
> For a while it looked like LDAP was using JS in this way - but they have
> moved to c++.
> 
> Any pointers/examples?
> 
> Alternatively, is there an equivalent to the (hated) doEvents() function
> in MS Basic?
> 
> Reason: I have an xml file with 12,000 xml lines in it. When
> loading/transforming  it (using JS)  the UI locks for about 2 minutes.
>