Noob coding help! (1 Viewer)

[eggyman]

Hi all.
I'm just starting out looking into my first MP related code and i've become a bit stuck.

What i want to do is show a progress dialog popup over the current window but have have the code continue processing with the dialog showing.
I'm not a C# developer so forgive me if this is dumb.

This is what i've got at the moment:

GUIDialogProgress dlgProgress =(GUIDialogProgress)GUIWindowManager.GetWindow((int)GUIWindow.Window.WINDOW_DIALOG_PROGRESS);
if (dlgProgress != null)
{
dlgProgress.SetHeading("blah...");
dlgProgress.SetPercentage(0);
dlgProgress.Progress();
dlgProgress.ShowProgressBar(false);
GUIWindowManager.Process();
dlgProgress.DoModal(GUIWindowManager.ActiveWindow);
}

Now this shows a dialog window, but any code after DoModal doesn't run until the cancel button is pressed.
I tried StartModal, which doesn't show a window at all.

I'm struggling a bit here!

 

[Baboonanza]

I'm not a C# developer either (yet!), but I can tell you that runnig a dialog as modal on Windows always means that it blocks execution of the code (in the current thread) until the dialog closes. This is often a usefull feature. If you want other behaviour you need to open the window in a way that doesn't have 'Modal' in the name

Beyond that I can't help.

 

[bryanchicken]

Thanks Baboonanza. That makes sense.

The problem being that the only way i could find of actually getting a window to appear was with that method The frustrating thing is that i'm sure its easy once you know how!

Currently i've progressed by starting another thread for my behind the scenes processing, but i can't help but think that i'm overkilling the situation somewhat by doing it that way.

Cheers.

 

[Inker]

Please don't crosspost.

Threads are your friend here. Easiest is probably a Backgroundworker, but we dont know what you are trying to achieve exactly, but its probably a good start.