On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 3:33 AM, nathanpdaniel <ndan...@bsi-scs.com> wrote:
> Is there a "primer" on creating asynchronous classes?  I've been
> building an app that runs a CRC32 check on each file (which requires
> looking at every byte of every file).  It doesn't cause issues when the
> files are small text files, but when they're 40mb video files, the app
> hangs till complete.  I want the app to be able to update other things
> while waiting on the CRC32 functionality completes.  Actually, all I
> need is some visual progress indicator (some way to update the
> display).

I once peeked into the source code of this library and thought it
looked promising:

http://blog.generalrelativity.org/?p=29

You should be able to split your CRC32 computation into chunks quite
easily, either with this library, or with something more basic using
just a simple Timer.

Manish

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