The following runs your progress indicator modally, which means the
user can't do anything while it runs. You may or may not want that
behavior.
It uses a timer to update the progress indicator on the main thread
by reading some instance variables. Your secondary thread writes to
those
Hi,
My app has to show a progress bar on the main window.
I have an outlet of type NSProgressIndicator.
A start button triggers the method in which I'm incrementing the
progress bar.
But the buttons stop working once the method gets called.
How can I run this progress bar in a separate
On Mar 10, 2008, at 10:08 PM, Nick Rogers wrote:
NSThread has one method:
+ (void)detachNewThreadSelector:(SEL)aSelector toTarget:(id)aTarget
withObject:(id)anArgument
But its hard to understand as to how to implement it, since its a
class method.
Don't
Make sure if you're doing this that you're not actually updating the
GUI code from your other thread because much of cocoa is not thread
safe.
Instead, use the performSelectorOnMainThread... Method to do your
update to the progress bar in the main thread.
--
Jiva DeVoe
