Re: Sending image from separate thread back to AppController
Re: Sending image from separate thread back to AppController
- Subject: Re: Sending image from separate thread back to AppController
- From: John Pannell <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:07:47 -0600
Hi Andrew-
I'm not sure I could call anything I'm doing "best practice", but I
have an app that generates an image in a thread and then places the
image in the UI (in a cell in a matrix, to be specific). The method is
part of my AppController, and is spun off into a separate thread via
[NSThread detachNewThreadSelector:@selector(addImageWithURL:)
toTarget:self withObject:myURLString];
Now, with this usage, the thread does know about the outlets to various
UI elements that the AppController knows about. So, in the method
running in the separate thread, I call
[[thePreviewView cellAtRow:row column:column] setImage:thumbImage];
where thePreviewView is an IBOutlet in my AppController's header file.
It all seems to work without a hitch. The thread performs a
calculation so that every thread is working on a unique row/column, so
there is no thread contention for UI objects.
HTH,
John
On Jul 20, 2004, at 2:44 PM, Andrew Duncan wrote:
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My AppController creates a new thread (call it Thread2), which runs
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and, in its own good time, creates an NSImage. Now I want to tell the
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main (UI) thread to display this image. Of course, Thread2 knows
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nothing about the outlets to the NSImageView, so it has to ask the
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AppController to deal with this.
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What's the Best Practice for this one? First impulse is to give the
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new thread a pointer back to the AppController. Then Thread2 can call
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a method on the AppController, sending the image (pointer) and having
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the AppController call setNeedsDisplay on the imageView.
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But maybe there's some cool notification scheme or value observer or
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something in Panther that I don't know about. I'm sure this is an FAQ
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and would appreciate hearing the frequent answer.
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