Comments on: Cocoa vs Swing vs .NET: invoking a method on the main GUI thread http://www.ditchnet.org/wp/2007/02/06/cocoa-vs-swing-vs-net-invoking-a-method-on-the-main-gui-thread/ XML, Cocoa, JavaScript, Java and other stuff. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:26:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Todd http://www.ditchnet.org/wp/2007/02/06/cocoa-vs-swing-vs-net-invoking-a-method-on-the-main-gui-thread/#comment-262777 Todd Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:21:56 +0000 http://www.ditchnet.org/wp/2007/02/06/cocoa-vs-swing-vs-net-invoking-a-method-on-the-main-gui-thread/#comment-262777 @Ken... well I'm not surprised to hear that... the Java example above is not the ideal way to handle this in that environment either. Java has higher level tools (such as SwingWorker) such as what you described. I guess I should have explained better that what I'm exploring here is the basic, language-level support for this type of thing in each environment... not necessarily the best high level tool for accomplishing it. @Ken… well I’m not surprised to hear that… the Java example above is not the ideal way to handle this in that environment either. Java has higher level tools (such as SwingWorker) such as what you described.

I guess I should have explained better that what I’m exploring here is the basic, language-level support for this type of thing in each environment… not necessarily the best high level tool for accomplishing it.

]]> By: Ken Robertson http://www.ditchnet.org/wp/2007/02/06/cocoa-vs-swing-vs-net-invoking-a-method-on-the-main-gui-thread/#comment-262753 Ken Robertson Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:29:14 +0000 http://www.ditchnet.org/wp/2007/02/06/cocoa-vs-swing-vs-net-invoking-a-method-on-the-main-gui-thread/#comment-262753 Know this post is old, though stumbled on it. That method for .NET is not really the optimal way to handle background work updating the GUI thread. Take a look at the BackgroundWorker object, which makes it much more streamlined and allows you to raise an event on the background threat that executes in the GUI thread. Know this post is old, though stumbled on it. That method for .NET is not really the optimal way to handle background work updating the GUI thread. Take a look at the BackgroundWorker object, which makes it much more streamlined and allows you to raise an event on the background threat that executes in the GUI thread.

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