OK, so I have changed the code to show a placeholder image, but I am a little uncertain as to how to fetch the images asynchronously. I could start a background thread with performSelectorInBackground, but am concerned that this would spawn far too many threads - does anyone have any suggestions?
On 19 Mar 2010, at 17:20, Luke the Hiesterman wrote: > You should display a place-holder image in the tableView cells so that your > app doesn't hang. You can then fetch the images asynchronously and replace > the placeholder images with the real images as they become available. You > should not do anything to interrupt smooth scrolling. > > Luke > > On Mar 19, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Michael Davey wrote: > >> Another question... >> >> In my application, I have several connected UITable views, and on the last >> level, I am displaying images that may or may not already be cached, what I >> would like to know is whether there is some way I can display some sort of >> notification to the user that this is what is happening, rather than my >> application "hanging" whilst the images are fetched from the server? >> >> TIA, >> >> Mikey_______________________________________________ >> >> 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/luketheh%40apple.com >> >> This email sent to luket...@apple.com > _______________________________________________ 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
