On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Peter W. Draper wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Mark Taylor wrote:
>
> > - The various catalogue receive and send operations are done in a
> > blocking fashion, without on-screen progress bars or the possibility
> > for the user to interrupt. I don't know whether this is considered
> > bad practice within GAIA.
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> I've been looking at this code and have modified it to do the table
> conversion in the background, I've also added a few blocks were the UI
> goes into busy (and the busy cursor is shown). Don't have any massive
> catalogues around so more might be needed, but I think that should be
> better. Try it out.
Yup, mostly looks good although sending a duff table
java -classpath /mbt/starjava/java/lib/plastic/plastic.jar \
uk.ac.starlink.plastic.PlasticRequest \
ivo://votech.org/votable/loadFromURL \
file://localhost/not/there/mate
pops up more error dialogues than you'd like. Probably my code, I'll
check it out later if you don't get there before me, but off home now.
> As far as the work goes I think I'm happy that we merge what we have into
> keoe, if there's still time, Tim/Brad? In which case you or I could do
> that on Monday.
If there is still time to get this in keoe but you need the merge
ASAP I can probably be prevailed upon to do it tomorrow (Sat).
I'll try to check my mail then.
Mark
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