[mapguide-trac] #1978: Put potentially long running tasks in background thread (was: Prepare Resource Previews in background thread)

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#1978: Put potentially long running tasks in background thread
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   Reporter:  jng      |       Owner:  jng        
       Type:  task     |      Status:  new        
   Priority:  low      |   Milestone:  Maestro-5.0
  Component:  Maestro  |     Version:             
   Severity:  trivial  |    Keywords:             
External_id:           |  
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Description changed by jng:

Old description:

> Sometimes resource previews can clog up the UI thread (eg. It may do a
> full schema walk or something equally intensive that spins the CPU).
>
> So it is best to do such preparation on a background thread instead

New description:

 Sometimes resource previews (and other potentially long tasks) can clog up
 the UI thread (eg. It may do a full schema walk or something equally
 intensive that spins the CPU).

 So it is best to do such preparation on a background thread instead

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/ticket/1978#comment:1>
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