On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Livio Isaia <lis...@tiscalinet.it> wrote: > I have a program searching data on disk for a long while and would like to > allow the user to stop the searching in any moment. What is the best and > easy way to do it? > (In addition, if the user clicks an another application during the search > and then again on my application, my application doesn't become active.)
Have you heard of multithreading? If you're targeting Leopard and above, read about NSOperation / NSOperationQueue. You'll want to do the searching in a separate thread / operation, which frees the main runloop (on which your UI depends) to process mouse clicks, update UI widgets, etc. Clicking the "stop" button would cancel pending operations. -- I.S. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
