Yielding time

[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

[Jon Skeet]

Re: Yielding time

Kevin Chandler <KevinC@CoaxNoS pam.Net> wrote:[color=blue]
> 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#?[/color]

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.

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[Kevin Chandler]

Re: Yielding time

Thanks!

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

Kevin

[Paul E Collins]

Re: Yielding time

"Kevin Chandler" <KevinC@CoaxNoS pam.Net> wrote:
[color=blue]
> 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.[/color]

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.DoE vents().

P.

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