i thought just being on the UI thread might have s...

# tornadofx

[carlw]

i thought just being on the UI thread might have serialized the calls like runLater() did

[amanda.hinchman-dominguez]

I don't know much about FX Threads/concurrency but it seems like the rule of thumb is to implement long-running tasks as background processes. Wouldn't your timer make the UI generally unresponsive? I tried looking up documentation for such a thing and it's unclear to me what the default is for where the threads run