New thread

On Sep 26, 9:11 am, RP <rpk.gene...@gmail.comwrote:

I have an animated GIF image on a Form. By default this image is
"invisible". I want to show this image using a different thread. How
to create a new thread and show this image.

I mean where to write Image.Show() in thread procedure.

Why do you want to use a different thread? You shouldn't use multiple
threads "owning" controls within a single window. You could load the
data for the GIF in a separate thread, and then ask the UI thread to
display it, but that's slightly different.

Jon

This is because my main thread is performing a tedious database task.
I tried to show it before the job starts, but it is not visible until
the process finishes or stops in between.

On Sep 26, 1:13 pm, "Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <sk...@pobox.comwrote:

Why do you want to use a different thread? You shouldn't use multiple
threads "owning" controls within a single window. You could load the
data for the GIF in a separate thread, and then ask the UI thread to
display it, but that's slightly different.

On Sep 26, 9:26 am, RP <rpk.gene...@gmail.comwrote:

This is because my main thread is performing a tedious database task.

Well *that's* the thing to move onto a different thread then. You
shouldn't block the UI thread with long-running tasks - they should be
executed on a different thread, with control updates being performed
on the UI thread using Control.Invoke or Control.BeginInvoke.

Jon

Can you please illustrate how to initialize a new thread?

On Sep 26, 1:29 pm, "Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <sk...@pobox.comwrote:

Well *that's* the thing to move onto a different thread then. You
shouldn't block the UI thread with long-running tasks - they should be
executed on a different thread, with control updates being performed
on the UI thread using Control.Invoke or Control.BeginInvoke.

On Sep 26, 9:32 am, RP <rpk.gene...@gmail.comwrote:

Can you please illustrate how to initialize a new thread?

I suggest you read my threading tutorial:
http://pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/threads/

Jon