Updating the UI while converting databases to V5

[jda]

Hi Ruslan,

In RS Cocoa you can't even *read* a property from a UI element (e.g. a window) from a thread.

Jon


> Nope. For Cocoa I've had to be very very extra careful in this. I've got a framework to show, hide and update the progress bar. This works at most places EXCEPT when doing some Valentina stuff like re-creating the index or reading the journal file.
> 
> I've had some customers who thought the app was "hanging" because nothing seemed to happen. Many of my customers aren't very computer savvy so this is a real problem!
> 
> On 24.03.2013, at 11:54, Ruslan Zasukhin <ruslan_zasukhin at valentina-db.com> wrote:
> 
>> Even if you will start
>> 
>> ThreadMain
>>  progress bar
>> 
>>  start thread 2
>>           call db.open that convert some time
>> 
>> ??
>> 
>> I think thread2 will be busy by Valentina Task
>> And thread1 will update infinite progress bar
>