Am 28.04.2011 um 12:26 schrieb Philip Vallone: > Hi, > > I have a UIViewController that can take a few seconds to load. The view > searches an XML file and eventually displays the resuts. I want to show a > UIActivityIndicatorView while the view loads. Unfortunately they are on the > same thread. How can I get the UIActivityIndicatorView to display befiore the > view loads?
You can not. The display will wait for the end of the runloop. > With the below code, the UI freezes up (indicator never shows) until the > search is done. Your UI would still freeze, even if you could get the indicator on screen. > [self.activityIndicator startAnimating]; > > TitleSearchResultsViewController *controller = > [[TitleSearchResultsViewController alloc] > initWithNibName:@"TitleSearchResultsViewController" bundle:nil]; > [controller setTitle:@"Search Results"]; Your controller needs to to its work in another thread and signal the main thread if it is done. atze _______________________________________________ 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