i see a lot of developers use runLater as though i...

# tornadofx

[carlw]

i see a lot of developers use runLater as though it meant "runNow". maybe javafx should deprecate runLater and create a method runAWholeLaterLaterThanYouProbablyThink()

[Ruckus]

I see your point, but if your runLater is running more than a few frames later, it's a good sign you have much more serious problems (too much going on on the UI thread, way too many runLater calls, etc.).

[carlw]

Agreed, but i've seen these runLaters run significantly later than expected. A regular example i've seen is to gather UI updates in a looping, threaded, long-running operations. updateProgress/Message aside, this ends up making the app unresponsive for the process and then a flood of UI updates

[Ruckus]

Indeed