Hi,
I have an application which is not multi-threaded (it runs ona single
webservice connection, thus the actions are blocked anyway to one after
the other). It runs tasks which run in clas methods and which interact
with disks and networks. Until now, I was logging all meaningful stuff
with NSLog() and I could see progress while the application was running,
pretty primitive.
I now started to write output on the screen. Right now it is a Logger
whcih has a console with a TextView and I print out everything there,
scrolling the textview continuously to the last message. In the future,
I might also write directly text in dialog boxes and similar things in
the future. An action is thus typically cyclical:
while (stuff to do)
{
fetch a chunk;
log information;
process chunk;
log information
}
The problem? There is no GUI update until everything is done.
I could make the application multi-threaded: having only one,
controlled, worker-thread that calls the main app just to update the
window. This probably works but has a certain effort.
Is there a way to tell the GUI to do some of its stuff? Some way to
relinquish control ? It would be a coarse way of course, but before
running another loop sequence I can just tell the main runloop to its
update stuff?
Should I mess with the current NSRunLoop and tell it to run? Or a
similar trick?
This would perhaps also allow to intercept the pressure for a "Cancel"
button. Currently I have none, but I might need one in the future.
Incidentally; I have seen that GNUstep apps are even more sensible than
Mac apps regarding this: The Mac app with the same code still redraws
its windows, the GNUstep application not.
Thanks,
Riccardo
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