[Gambas-user] How to run some job in background separately with UI

[Werner]

On 24/12/10 00:36, Phạm Quang Dương wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm writing for myself a small program to manage my image files. I choose a
> folder, it will get all image files in this folder and display thumbnail
> with an Icon view (like Nautilus or other files manager).
> Current, I do:
> - Get image files list of the folder. (1)
> - For each image, check if it had thumbnail, load thumbnail to Icon view. If
> not, load original image, create and save thumbnail, display into icon view.
> (2).
> Even I made cache with thumbnail, the program is freezed for a time with a
> folder including many files.
> Can I do like Nautilus doing: display all files with a default icon, user
> still can scroll, select ... while the program loads and displays the
> thumbnails (it means that can I run (2) in background) ?
>
> An additional request, do you have a sample about run-time resizable control
> (like we draw, resize controls to design form with Gambas IDE). I try to
> make a rectangle selection tool (like one of GIMP) to select an area of
> image, but I still have not any idea.
>
> Thank you, Merry Christmas and Happy new year :)
Regarding image file viewer Matti has written a really nice one called
Lightbox.
If you ask him nicely...
He is on this list.

Regards
Werner