Hey, You misquoted the site. "InvokeOnMainThread" blocks execution until the delegate is invoked. *Begin*InvokeOnMainThread does not.
Alan On 6 April 2012 13:45, Chris Hatton <[email protected]> wrote: > Wouldn't plain 'InvokeOnMainThread' do what you are looking for? > > From the Wiki at: http://wiki.ios.xamarin.com/HowTo/Threading > > *"BeginInvokeOnMainThread will suspend the execution of your thread, and > wait for the delegate to be executed on the main thread. When that > completes, the thread resumes execution." > * > > - Chris > > > On 06/04/12 07:00, René Ruppert wrote: > > I would opt for Task and ContinueWith(). It's an awesome way of dealing > with such situations. > All locking, WaitHandles or Sleep calls can block the UI thread on iPhone > and cause very weird behavior or lockups. > > Grüße, René > > Am 05.04.2012 um 23:34 schrieb Rodrigo Kumpera <[email protected]>: > > You really can't do it without manually waiting for it. > > What you can do is: > > object obj = new object (); > BeginInvokeOnMainThread (delegate { > //Do something > lock (obj) { Monitor.Notify (obj); } > }); > > Thread.Sleep (2000); > lock (obk) { Monitor.Wait (obj); } > > Ideally we would provide wrappers for common idioms of the .NET > plataform like making the > function return an IAsyncResult or Task object. > > > > On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 6:13 PM, MojoDK <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> In this code... >> >> ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem (delegate { >> BeginInvokeOnMainThread (delegate { >> // Do something >> }); >> Thread.Sleep(2000); >> // Check something >> }); >> >> ... how can I make sure the "// Do something" is completely done before >> "//Check something"? >> >> In other words, how can I check when BeginInvokeOnMainThread is done and >> then do some stuff still in the ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem? >> >> Thanks! >> Mojo >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://monotouch.2284126.n4.nabble.com/When-is-BeginInvokeOnMainThread-done-tp4536089p4536089.html >> Sent from the MonoTouch mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> _______________________________________________ >> MonoTouch mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch >> > > _______________________________________________ > MonoTouch mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch > > > > _______________________________________________ > MonoTouch mailing > [email protected]http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch > > > > _______________________________________________ > MonoTouch mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch > >
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