Hide ThreadWithProgressWindow

General JUCE discussion
1

Hey!

As the title says, is there anyway to hide the window sometimes with ThreadWithProgressWindow? I want to reuse the work done in my ThreadWithProgressWindow elsewhere but not show window.

getAlertWindow()->setVisible(false); doesn't seem to work...

Thanks!

2

Are you using the ThreadWithProgressWindow modally (i.e. using the ThreadWithProgressWindow::runThread method)? I’m not sure you can hide the alert window if the message thread is blocked by the modal window.

3

Hold on, is runThread modal and launchThread not? Because in the documentation it seems that launchThread is the one that has the modal state (I’m guessing they both are).

https://www.juce.com/doc/classThreadWithProgressWindow#adb0f85d0de1be635284b3606b02d1708

In any case there’s no way to initiate the ThreadWithProgressWindow silently? As in not even hide it but not have it in the first place?

Thanks!
C

4

Sorry, my answer was really confusing. runThread will block, where launchThread will return immediately. But you are right, both are modal.

Can you hide the window immediately after calling launchThread?

5

Actually, I just realised that you can call ThreadWithProgressWindow’s thread directly, without initiating runThread (using startThread).

This seems to work!

Thanks Fabian for your discussion.