We need job support utilities.

[guest]

Rich client is a classical multi-task application, so there is some important utilities that dojo should develop. At least we need a user block/unblock long-term function. function definition:

dojo.provide("dojo.Task");
dojo.Task.Running(/**function*/invokeFunction,/**boolean*/isblock);

sample code below here:

dojo.Task.Running(function(){
    //do something as one of the multi-task
},false);
dojo.Task.Running(function(){
    //do something which block other operator from user.
},true);

my email: li.jianye@…

[guest]

"unblock/block" is a GUI effect. Normally, we use a "div" element simulate it.

[tk]

I believe the guest above didnt understand this ticket... Dojo isnt an end all/be all solution, it provides building blocks to build applications from. Your application should extend richText or provide an central "task service" that it loads and provides current status to each of the users... and then enabling/disabling what aspects of the application are available based on that...

I really dont believe this is valid enhancement for any of the Dojo widgets... CC'ing Bill on this since Widgets are his cup of tea.

-Karl

[bill]

Yup, Karl is right. This ticket seems to be asking for multithreading in javascript, which isn't possible. There are some (non-dojo) libraries to simulate it, but Dojo doesn't want to support anything like that.