Hi,
I am seeing two mails send with a message cut off and also
gmail is hiding some of the text as showquoted test in one mail. I am
not sure what is happening.
If you are not seeing the full email message, please update and
I will send again.
Best Regard
Sridharan Srinivasan
Alias Sri.
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 6:32 PM, John Murray <j...@murray.gb.com> wrote:
> I’ve cracked a number of things along the learning curve of Mandroid but I
> am being really thick here
>
> I just cannot get my head around the implementation of a progress bar – can
> some kind soul help me with some idiot proof code?
>
>
>
> I have a static class method which fetches some meteorological diagrams from
> a webserver and places resulting bitmap in a static which is later accessed
> by an imageview
>
> Takes 4 or 5 seconds but a lot longer over a GSM network therefore I want to
> put up a progress thingy
>
>
>
> For the time being I’ve got a textview just saying loading
>
>
>
> These lines of code are called when a user selects something from a
> spinner
>
> Obviously this doesn’t do much
>
> t1.Text = "loading";
>
> WXclass5.getwindmap(ds, WXclass5.altsel.ToString());
>
> t1.Text = "";
>
> but why cant I do this
>
> t1.Text = "loading";
>
> ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(o
> =>WXclass5.getwindmap(ds, WXclass5.altsel.ToString()));
>
> t1.Text = "";
>
> there’s no UI code in the ‘getwindmap’ – just a webclient call and some
> bitmap/byte manipulation
>
> but implementing the threadpool.QueueWorkItem does not seem to fetch
> anything or do anything – I can’t seem to debug into it to see what’s
> happening (is there a special method of debugging on separate threads?
>
>
>
> With regards to implementing the progress bar instead of text saying loading
> I presume I just replace the text.t1 with a progressbar -and set it
> visible before the threadpoolqueue and non-visible after?
>
>
>
> I suspect it is not that simple
>
>
>
> Sorry to seem so stupid but I’ve read all the android stuff on progressbars
> and I’ve developed a complete mental block – the more I read the less I
> understand.
>
> Can someone please explain in baby language please?
>
>
>
>
>
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