Everything is now working. The fix: switching to XULRunner 1.9 (trunk) per the Songbird guys' recommendation. Threading in Javascript is magical in 1.9.
Richard James Newell wrote: > On Jul 27, 4:42 am, Christian Biesinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Richard Crowley wrote: >>> thread.sleep(1000); >> What if you add a try..catch around this call, i.e. ignore any >> exceptions that it may throw? > > Hi, > > I had similar problems with threads crashing and causing other > problems (http://groups.google.com.au/group/mozilla.dev.tech.xpcom/ > browse_thread/thread/fa42b4ca9a302b7c/05923748c4f491eb? > hl=en#05923748c4f491eb)... > > The work around I successfully used was Neil Mix's pure JavaScript > method of threading (http://www.neilmix.com/2007/02/07/threading-in- > javascript-17/). > > Hope this helps, > > James > > _______________________________________________ > dev-tech-xpcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-xpcom _______________________________________________ dev-tech-xpcom mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-xpcom
