iOS UIProgressView not updated

[beachdog]

In my app I respond to a button event by doing some work that could take several seconds, so I am using a UIProgressView to show progress. The problem is that even though I am setting the progress property the UI does not update. I am wondering if this is because I am doing all this in my IBAction method which is called from the button event -- is the problem that the UI will not get updated by changes I make to UIProgressView.property until this method returns? If so, do I then need to do my work in a separate thread, and have the IBAction method launch this thread and then return immediately?

 

[beachdog]

Just a follow up on this....It turns out my problem is that I was using NSURLConnection to load a url, and even though I was doing it asynchronously it was running in the main thread. My error was that I incorrectly assumed that asynchronous loading of urls happened in a new background thread, which is not the case. So even though I was periodically setting the progress property of the control from within that thread, none of those updates were processed until I finished parsing the entire data set since I was doing this in the main thread. That led to the user seeing the progress view "stuck" at 0% for the entire duration of the task, and then seeing it jump to 100% once the task was done.

To get the UI to display properly I changed my code to load the url in a background thread:

[self performSelectorInBackground:@selector(loadUrl:) withObject:url];

Then in the background thread when I wanted to update the UI I had to trigger a method call in the main thread to do the updating:

NSNumber* f = [NSNumber numberWithFloat:(float) (++nTasksComplete) / (float) nTasksTotal] ;
[self performSelectorOnMainThread:@selector(updateProgressView:) withObject:f waitUntilDone:NO];

Then everything worked fine, and my progress view control shows the progress as I parse through the downloaded data

 

[iamjiex]

you solve my problem, thanks.