Event in a Thread

[QzRz]

Hello I have created my own event and delegate, they look like this:

public delegate Answer delegateCallResponse(Request req);
public event delegateCallResponse eventCallResponse;

the Request and Answer is 2 struct which contain a few strings/ints. I got a method to handle the event, which look like

public Answer ans = new Answer();
private Answer OnEvent(Request req) {
FillRequest(req);
while (!ans.filled) { Thread.Sleep(1000); }
return this.ans; }

the ans.filled is a bool indication whether the information is filled or not. My problem is that the Answer can take a while to get filled and the code as it is now, will make the mainthread sleep thus making the GUI unavailable for some time. Is there a way to run the event in a thread? or just another way to make it wait than use the while function? //QzRz

[Jimmanuel]

Use an Asynchronous method call to run FillRequest: Asynchronous Method Invocation[^] then instead of looping waiting for ans.filled to be true you can set up a callback for when the function finishes.

[K L K]

If your event is in a class, you can create a method in that class that invokes the event asynchronously. Specifically, you can do:

ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem( delegate { if(eventCallResponse != null) { eventCallResponse(req) } );