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On 6/20/11 3:54 PM, James Merkel wrote:
> I'm opening all digital camera files in a folder (JPEG, TIF, etc),
> extracting a thumbnail and some Exif data, and putting the data in a
> TableView. The time consuming part is finding the thumbnails in the files.
OK.
I don't know anything about extracting thumbnails et al., but for the
sake of argument suppose you have a class JMImageProcessor that has
methods like:
- - (id)initWithFileHandle:(NSFileHandle *)fileHandle;
- - (NSDictionary *)exifData;
- - (NSImage *)thumbnail; // Takes a long time to run
So in your main thread you then have a loop over a bunch of
NSFileHandles (of course you might be accessing the files completely
differently; this is just for illustration). So you might currently have:
for (NSFileHandle *fileHandle in files) {
JMImageProcessor *processor = [[JMImageProcessor alloc]
initWithFileHandle:fileHandle];
// Call some code to stash the results, presumably updating the
tableView's data source in the process
[self setExifData:[processor exifData] forFile:fileHandle];
[self setThumbnail:[processor thumbnail] forFile:fileHandle];
[processor release];
// Call some code to redisplay the NSTableView
[self updateTable];
}
You could make such code non-blocking with, for example, GCD:
dispatch_queue_t workerQueue =
dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, NULL);
for (NSFileHandle *fileHandle in files) {
dispatch_async(workerQueue,
^{
JMImageProcessor *processor = [[JMImageProcessor alloc]
initWithFileHandle:fileHandle];
[self setExifData:[processor exifData]
forFile:fileHandle];
[self setThumbnail:[processor thumbnail]
forFile:fileHandle];
[processor release];
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(),
^{
[self updateTable];
// UI updates need to be on the main
thread, i.e., the GCD main
queue, so we call back asynchronously
}
);
}
);
}
(Note 1: this was all written in a mail client and untested.)
(Note 2: the above assumes that the setExifData/setThumbnail methods are
implemented properly, atomically if required. But if the methods are
backed by, for example, mutable dictionaries, and anything accessing
them handle absent entries reasonably, this should be pretty
straightforward.)
(Note 3: this could all alternatively be done with NSOperationQueue, or
even plain old NSThread. But GCD can probably do it in the smallest
amount of code.)
Good luck!
- --
Conrad Shultz
Synthetiq Solutions
www.synthetiqsolutions.com
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