Re: [Gnumed-devel] A question re demographics

[Karsten Hilbert]

> > > Patient picture, well, let me work on that, shouldn't take too long.
> > There's a v_latest_mugshot on the backend. Also, I believe
> > there's code somewhere (gmDocFolder or so ?) to fetch it. Be
> > aware, though, that fetching the patient picture is a big time
> > sink (hence that pesky "needs to be implemented async" message
> > on the console :-)
> It would be nice IMHO to implement a general solution in gmDispatcher
> That is, an option in gmDispatcher.connect () to register as a "async" handler
> which is called in a background worker thread after the foreground handlers 
> have
> finished.
I am not sure I understand this model. I would love to be able
to run SQL in the background but I am scared of the thread
sync issues.

> This handler would then of course use wxCallAfter () to update the screen,
I have experienced wxCallAfter() to be friggin' slow
and best avoided where possible.

I am still thinking on the layout manager. Will respond today.

Karsten
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