Open API for background and multi-core actions

Hello Dave,

Will there be OpenAPI available for the new process backgrounding
stuff. I've got some ideas that I would love to play with.

It's already there.
ProgressManager.getInstance().runProcessWithProgressAsynchronously().

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Dmitry Jemerov
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Excellent. It took me less than ten minutes to get MetricsReloaded calculations working properly in the background. Is there anything special I need to do enable multi-threaded backgrounding, or is it just a matter of playing "guess the cores and spawn the threads"?

--Dave Griffith

We are using
java.util.concurrent.Executors#newFixedThreadPool(Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors())
for spawning threads.
It's just important to remember to acquire the readAction() for the least
possible time interval to improve responsiveness.

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Alexey Kudravtsev
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"Dave Griffith" <dave.griffith@cnn.com> wrote in message
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Excellent. It took me less than ten minutes to get MetricsReloaded
calculations working properly in the background. Is there anything
special I need to do enable multi-threaded backgrounding, or is it just a
matter of playing "guess the cores and spawn the threads"?

>

--Dave Griffith

Just as a quick query, should MetricsReloaded be working in IDEA 6?

I noticed someone asked in the plug-ins forum in December (http://www.intellij.net/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=5179033&#5179033) and I can't collect metrics at all, it just brings back an empty window.

There should be a new release shortly, as soon as a QA cycle is finished.

--Dave Griffith