validateNow() does not update the screen. The screen is only updated after actionscript finishes executing. Most folks break things up in some way using callLater.
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pan Troglodytes Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 9:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] ProgressBar doesn't get updated immediately I tried validateNow() with no success, unfortunately. On 5/4/07, Manish Jethani <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: On 5/2/07, Pan Troglodytes <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:chimpathetic%40gmail.com> > wrote: > This time, I have the progress bar working in event mode, cranking through sending off progress events. It works fine, except when it gets to one section of the code. I want to send back the progress while this one very long and time consuming function is happening. So I have several points where I dispatch a progress event to the progress bar. I have added a "progress" event to the bar to write a line to the trace log. It gets these progress events. However, it doesn't update the bar. It seems that the bar redraw is holding off until the other function finishes. This is defeating the whole purpose of having the progress bar. > > Is there some way I can force a bar redraw? I've tried some of the invalidate/validate methods with no luck. Try calling validateNow() on the progress bar on the "progress" event. This obviously means you're doing the whole measurement/layout every time a progress event fires, so you probably want to do it on every Nth iteration. progress="counter++;if(counter%10==0)progressBar.validateNow()" -- Jason
