Yielding time

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Kevin Chandler

Greetings to All,

I have a c# conversion app that does a lot of crunching and updates a status
window containing a RichText control. The updates to the control do not
appear until the job is done and the processor is freed up. I know in C++
you could pump some messages and the update would happen. I know in VB,
they had a call which would yield a minimum amount of time in order to
process events and update the display. What is available in C#?

Thanks in advance,
Kevin
 
Kevin Chandler said:
I have a c# conversion app that does a lot of crunching and updates a status
window containing a RichText control. The updates to the control do not
appear until the job is done and the processor is freed up. I know in C++
you could pump some messages and the update would happen. I know in VB,
they had a call which would yield a minimum amount of time in order to
process events and update the display. What is available in C#?
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You should start the work in another thread, leaving the UI thread for
UI events. Note that any status updates or whatever should occur in the
UI thread too - use Control.Invoke to easily achieve this.
 
Thanks!

It worked great. I should have known better. Suffering from a brain-fade.

Kevin
 
Kevin Chandler said:
I have a c# conversion app that does a lot of
crunching and updates a status window
containing a RichText control. [...]
I know in VB, they had a call which would yield
a minimum amount of time in order to process
events and update the display.
Click to expand...

If you don't want to go the multi-threaded route, you can still use DoEvents
as you did in VB. The equivalent C# call is Application.DoEvents().

P.
 
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