invisible gui

[Dave]

I have a program that process files on a hard drive. Everything works fine,
it shows a progress bar as it processes the file. The problem occurs when I
have the program look for files to process on startup. The gui is invisible
untill it processes the files it finds as it startsup. After which it
appears and everything works normally when the next file needs to be
processed.

Is there anyway to tell the program to not look for files untill the
interface is visible? I need a method like onGUIAppears.
Thanks in advance.

[Peter Duniho]

On Thu, 15 May 2008 18:01:25 -0700, Dave <DW**@newsgroup.nospamwrote:

I have a program that process files on a hard drive. Everything works
fine,
it shows a progress bar as it processes the file. The problem occurs
when I
have the program look for files to process on startup. The gui is
invisible
untill it processes the files it finds as it startsup. After which it
appears and everything works normally when the next file needs to be
processed.

Is there anyway to tell the program to not look for files untill the
interface is visible? I need a method like onGUIAppears.

It's difficult for me to understand how your GUI can show progress if the
processing begins after the GUI is shown, but not before. Perhaps you've
made a mistake in your initialization by starting the processing before
some specific initialization within the GUI is done. The question of
visibility shouldn't matter.

That said, you can override OnShown() in your form class to know when the
form is actually being shown and delay your processing until that point.

Pete

[Dave]

You misunderstood, I mentioned the progress bar as a reason to why I wanted
to see the form before processing begins. You CAN NOT see the progress bar
on startup.The files are processed correctly even though you can't see the
progress.

I beleive the OnShown() will do what I need. Can you post a short example on
how to use this?

Thanks,

Dave.

"Peter Duniho" <Np*********@nnowslpianmk.comwrote in message
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On Thu, 15 May 2008 18:01:25 -0700, Dave <DW**@newsgroup.nospamwrote:

>I have a program that process files on a hard drive. Everything works
fine,
it shows a progress bar as it processes the file. The problem occurs
when I
have the program look for files to process on startup. The gui is
invisible
untill it processes the files it finds as it startsup. After which it
appears and everything works normally when the next file needs to be
processed.

Is there anyway to tell the program to not look for files untill the
interface is visible? I need a method like onGUIAppears.

It's difficult for me to understand how your GUI can show progress if the
processing begins after the GUI is shown, but not before. Perhaps you've
made a mistake in your initialization by starting the processing before
some specific initialization within the GUI is done. The question of
visibility shouldn't matter.

That said, you can override OnShown() in your form class to know when the
form is actually being shown and delay your processing until that point.

Pete

[Mach58]

On Thu, 15 May 2008 22:14:31 -0400, "Dave" <DW**@newsgroup.nospam>
wrote:

>You misunderstood, I mentioned the progress bar as a reason to why I wanted
to see the form before processing begins. You CAN NOT see the progress bar
on startup.The files are processed correctly even though you can't see the
progress.

I beleive the OnShown() will do what I need. Can you post a short example on
how to use this?

Thanks,

Dave.

Something like this should do:

using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;

class Class1 : Form
{
bool firsttime = true;
protected override void OnShown(EventArgs e)
{
if (firsttime)
{
firsttime = false;
// ##put your code here##
MessageBox.Show("I've been shown! (for the first time)");
}
base.OnShown(e);
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Application.Run(new Class1());
}
}

If you need more help, you'll need to post some code. Please follow
this guidelines:

http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/complete.html

Mach

[Linda Liu[MSFT]]

Hi Dave,

When a Form is loaded, it's Load event is fired first. The Form won't show
until all lines of code in its Load event handler finish executing. After
that, the Form's Activated event is fired and then the Shown event.

If the Form does some time-consuming work in the Activated or Shown event
handler, the UI of the Form will be blocked, i.e. all controls on the Form
are not painted properly or not responsive. This is because the main UI
thread is busy and doesn't have a chance to paint/refresh the UI of the
Form.

To show a Form and then do some time-consuming work without blocking the
UI, I suggest that you do the time-consuming work in a separate thread. You
can create a Thread instance or call the BeginInvoke method on the delegate
to the time-consuming method to do it, if you're using .NET 1.x.

If you're using .NET 2.0, I recommend you use the BackgroundWorker
component, which provides a concise multiple-threads programming model and
is very easy to use. You can start a BackgroundWorker in the Form's Load
event handler in your practice.

For more information on how to use the BackgroundWorker component, please
refer to the following MSDN document:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...backgroundwork
er.aspx

Hope this helps.
If you have anything unclear, please feel free to let me know.

Sincerely,
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