Question

I am faced with a problem. I am clicking a button that is calling several methods, although the main thread is locking up, so I created an instance of my class (which is Form1) e.g. Form1Object and then the button called the methods as so: Form1Object.Check1 and so on.

Although the thread still locked up (i.e. the GUI became unresponsive for a period) Is there anyway of getting around this, any examples would be greatly appreciated.

The code in question is below:

private void StartChecks_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Form1 Form1Object = new Form1();
    Form1Object.InitChecks();
}

public void InitChecks()
{
    Check1();
    Check2();
    Check3();
    Check4();
    Check5();
    Check6();
    Check7();
}      

Answer 1

What you need to do is start a parallel thread to do the check, so you won’t lock up the main thread:

   private void StartChecks_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Form1 Form1Object = new Form1();
        Thread t = new Thread(
           o => 
           {
               Form1Object.InitChecks();
           });
        t.Start();
    }

Hopefully you don’t need to actually retrieve anything from those calculations, so you can just fire and forget about it.