Netscape Thread.join() hangs in 4.04 and lower

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From: Dan Woods
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 00:00

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I am unable to find any bug reports on Sun or Netscape
about this.  Please help, it's driving me nuts.

I have tried to implement a class to load images in
the background for when an applet (JDK1.0.2) starts.
I have a Runnable class which uses threads for each
image/sound/file to load.  I use Thread.join() in
my checkProp(boolean waitForIt) method if waitForIt
is true. It waits for the thread to end (after run()
executes.

In AppletViewer, MSIE3.02, Netscape 4.05 and higher,
this works fine.  Any other Netscape below 4.05
(including NN3.04, NN4.04 w/jdk) will hang when it
gets to the join() method. 

Is this a known problem ?  What do I do as a workaround ?

Thanks...Dan.

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