Pause a loop without stopping updating the UI

[David_Schlam]

Is it possible to pause a loop in the main thread and still let the UI update?

I think I am running too many threads so the UI is not being updated until all the threads are finished.

I paused the thread and that helps when I am only running 1 or 2 threads, but if I start more than 2 threads, the UI waits until all the threads are finished.

For some reason, in Xojo 2013 r3.3, this is not a problem - but in Xojo 2017 r2.1 64-bit everything stops until all the threads are finished.

[David_Schlam]

I see now this is a 64-bit issue

@326343:@James Sentman

in 64bit apps on OSX refresh doesn’t work anymore anyway. The UI won’t update until you return. So you have to do chunks in a timer or a thread to have the rest of the UI update.