Re: GUI updates do not show even from separate thread

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Fred Kiefer wrote:
> Thank you to both you and Sebastian, switching to passive mode made the 
> application work. This really should be the default mode.

I just did it. it is the default now, apparently some firewalls are 
prickier than others.

> Now I see that the transfer happens in a background thread while the UI changes 
> are made in the main thread, just like it should be. Very impressive, I will 
> need some more time to admire this code.

Don't exaggerate!
> Now I see the wrong behaviour just like you described it. The progress bar gets 
> updated but only one or two times whereas the download constantly provides the 
> progress information. I am going to add some debug output to the NSWindow 
> autoupdate code to see, whether this gets called. Most likely this isn't the 
> case, meaning we have a problem with the runtime loop. Maybe we need to add the 
> autoupdate to more event modes or there is an issue with having two run loops. 
> Some more investigation is needed.

I too verified that the DO code works and that the updates are flowing 
into the main thread.
Thank you - let us know.

Riccardo