On Mar 13, 2010, at 19:33, Alexander Bokovikov wrote: > I have a time-consuming procedure, and I'd like to show its progress. I can't > use multi-threading for some technical reason. > I'm looking for a way to update a progress indicator from this procedure, > As far as I understand my task is to cause message loop processing. > And my question is - how to do it?
It's fairly straightforward -- repeatedly invoke a method that does the following: NSEvent *event; while ((event = [NSApp nextEventMatchingMask: NSAnyEventMask untilDate: nil inMode: NSEventTrackingRunLoopMode dequeue: YES])) [NSApp sendEvent: event]; Make sure this is called often enough for responsiveness (say, at least every 0.1 secs), but not too often to interfere with performance. You might want to choose a different run loop mode, if you have special requirements. NSEventTrackingRunLoopMode is sufficient to allow keystrokes and mouse clicks to be processed, so that you can have a UI (say, Esc key or button) to cancel the procedure if you want. _______________________________________________ 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