This isn’t exactly hard to try and see… but the answer is that the alert will take priority and hold up the flow of execution. Upon closing the alert, and assuming the AJAX request has completed while the alert was open, then the success function will be processed (or error function). Note that the AJAX … Read more
The problem you’re running into is that most background thread / worker APIs will create the thread in a Multithreaded Apartment state. The error message indicates that the control requires the thread be a Single Threaded Apartment. You can work around this by creating a thread yourself and specifying the STA apartment state on the … Read more
This comes back to the one-threaded nature of JavaScript1. What happens is pretty much this: Your variables are assigned. You schedule a function, to set run = false. This is scheduled to be run after the current function is run (or whatever else is currently active). You have your endless loop and stay inside the … Read more