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Re: Progress bar


  • Subject: Re: Progress bar
  • From: Shawn Erickson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:58:07 -0800

Well my example code for the threaded method wasn't a complete example, I left a lot up to the reader. The following is little more complete example (cannot provide much more not knowing the side effects of having your main thread being able to process events while you are doing your database work in a secondary thread).

The example sticks with awakeFromNib but it is likely better to implement applicationDidFinishLaunching: and move your code that finished up your application launching in there. This was written in Mail.app so likely have some syntax errors...

- (void)awakeFromNib
{
[NSThread detachNewThreadSelector:@selector(prepareDatabase) toTarget:self withObject:nil];
}


- (void)prepareDatabase
{
	NSAutorelease* pool = [[NSAutorelease alloc] init];
	@try {
		...create, configure and show splash window...

[myStatusField performSelectorOnMainThread:@selector(setStringValue:)
withObject:@"Setting up database" // TODO - use NSLocalizedString to fetch localized versions
waitUntilDone:NO];


		... setup database ...

[myStatusField performSelectorOnMainThread:@selector(setStringValue:)
withObject:@"Quering database....." // TODO - use NSLocalizedString to fetch localized versions
waitUntilDone:NO];


		... query database ...

[myStatusField performSelectorOnMainThread:@selector(setStringValue:)
withObject:@"Done" // TODO - use NSLocalizedString to fetch localized versions
waitUntilDone:NO];


		... order out and release splash window ...
	} @finally {
		[pool release];
	}
}

The "@try" and "@finally" are enabled as part of Objective-C exceptions in the build settings. Just comment those out if you don't care or want to use them.

-Shawn

On Nov 10, 2005, at 3:17 PM, Andrea Salomoni wrote:

Hi,

Thank you very much for reply.
I tryied to use your method... but it still doesn't work.

Il giorno 11/nov/05, alle ore 00:06, Shawn Erickson ha scritto:

For this scenario your options are to explicitly trigger the view element to draw itself (likely best to use displayIfNeeded) or rework things such that your long run body of work takes place in a secondary thread. Using a secondary thread for this work will allow the main thread to do its normal event loop which includes asking dirty views to redraw themselves.

If you do want to use a secondary thread then to update status use something like the following...

[myStatusField performSelectorOnMainThread:@selector(setStringValue:)
	 withObject:@"Setting up database"
	waitUntilDone:NO];

... setup database ...

[myStatusField performSelectorOnMainThread:@selector(setStringValue:)
	 withObject:@"Quering database....."
	waitUntilDone:NO];

...

Personally I would use a secondary thread for this.

-Shawn
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