Updating the UI when using a serial queue

Question

I am using a serial queue to do a background thread (block) for video processing. I want to update a UI component (specifically a progress bar). I've found that while I can interact with the UI, my progress bar is not updating with calls to setProgress (called from the block), until the thread has finished.

dispatch_queue_t dispatch_queue = dispatch_queue_create("somequeue", NULL);

    [somebody doSomethingOnQueue:dispatch_queue usingBlock:^{

        progressBar.progress = someFloat; //does not update

    }];

Answer 1

You should update the UI on the main dispatch queue:

[somebody doSomethingOnQueue:dispatch_queue usingBlock:^{
    …
    dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
        progressBar.progress = someFloat;
    });
}];

Answer 2

您可以使用performSelectorOnMainThread:withObject:waitUntilDone: .