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Animation during High CPU Load
Hello,
My current program creates an extremely high CPU load while it is loading. During its loading procedure I have a small animation, but unfortunately due to the high CPU load the animation does about 2 frames and then 'hangs' until the program has finished its load procedure.
Is there any way to force the animation to continue? I have tried using "this.Refresh()" during the for loops but that does not help. Adding a breakpoint inside the timer I see that the counter managing the animation does not increment until after the loading procedure.
Can I somehow limit the amount of Processor usage my program will take? Or Is there any way to force this animation to change frames?
Thanks!
My current program creates an extremely high CPU load while it is loading. During its loading procedure I have a small animation, but unfortunately due to the high CPU load the animation does about 2 frames and then 'hangs' until the program has finished its load procedure.
Is there any way to force the animation to continue? I have tried using "this.Refresh()" during the for loops but that does not help. Adding a breakpoint inside the timer I see that the counter managing the animation does not increment until after the loading procedure.
Can I somehow limit the amount of Processor usage my program will take? Or Is there any way to force this animation to change frames?
Thanks!
Include the following
using System.Windows.Forms
using System.Windows.Forms
Whew, now that's a great question that even Application.DoEvents won't help. I came up with an AnimatedGIF class that managed changing the frames which worked pretty well, but sadly I can't find it anymore.
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Multithreading is what I needed to do.
I'll give a quick explanation of what I did.
Normally I start a timer to handle the animation and then I call the reLoad() function.
Now I have put the reLoad() function on a separate thread as follows:
First add:
using System.Threading;
then in the code I declare a private thread variable for the entire form:
private Thread reloadThread;
on my frm_Load event I have the following:
timAnimStart.Start(); // start the animation timer
this.reLoadThread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(this.reLoad));
this.reLoadThread.Start();
So thanks BurntSky it works now. It's not perfect but it works great. Multithreading is my new best friend.
I'll give a quick explanation of what I did.
Normally I start a timer to handle the animation and then I call the reLoad() function.
Now I have put the reLoad() function on a separate thread as follows:
First add:
using System.Threading;
then in the code I declare a private thread variable for the entire form:
private Thread reloadThread;
on my frm_Load event I have the following:
timAnimStart.Start(); // start the animation timer
this.reLoadThread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(this.reLoad));
this.reLoadThread.Start();
So thanks BurntSky it works now. It's not perfect but it works great. Multithreading is my new best friend.
Application.DoEvents()
This should do the trick.