Whats the MP equivilent of Application.DoEvents(); (1 Viewer)

[egonspengleruk]

In my MP3 ripping code, I have code that hogs the CPU for large amounts of time causing the entire MP screen to white out. In the original code there are lots of DoEvents calls, but MP seems to not like me using these.
What method should I be using to let the rest of Windows operate while my code runs.

Egon

 

[Smirnuff]

The GUIWindowManager.Process method is the one you're looking for.

 

[egonspengleruk]

Cheers Smirnuff. Thats fixed it

 

[Smirnuff]

Fast!!!

 

[samuel337]

Should you be using threading for that - running the CD ripping thread on a different one to the UI one so that the UI continues to work...

I guess if you've fixed it now, it doesn't really matter.

San

 

[egonspengleruk]

Should you be using threading for that - running the CD ripping thread on a different one to the UI one so that the UI continues to work...

I guess if you've fixed it now, it doesn't really matter.

San

It would probably be a good idea......but this is just my first mock up to prove it all works.
Do you have any links or example code that demo's threading in C#? Im learning as I go here

Egon

 

[samuel337]

I don't have any great examples - I'm a VB.NET guy learning C# so I know how to do it, but I don't have any great examples.

You could check out the code that MP uses to update the database within MP or the code that MP uses to update the TVGuide - both those use threading.

Sam

 

[MrSensitive]

Hi,

the easiest way is to use a backgroundworker..
Visual studio 2005 has one ready in the toolbox.
it wraps all the threading stuff in a nice package.. and is very easy to use..

(i'm using a custom one in my pocketpc application to poll the server every second)