Question

I’m trying to make this line to work with BackgroundWorker:

map = Map.LoadMap(mapname);

…like this:

bw.DoWork += (map = Map.LoadMap(mapname));

It causes the error Cannot implicitly convert type 'game.Map' to 'System.ComponentModel.DoWorkEventHandler'.

I just started using BackgroundWorker as threading component for my game, but it doesn’t look like it will be easy to convert all existing methods to work with it. Is there a simple way to make this work or is it better to switch to some other threading mechanism?

Note: from the threading base I need to be able to poll for progress percentage and not messing up my existing method calls.

Answer 1

You can leverage anonymous delegates like this:

bw.DoWork += (sender, args) => { map = Map.LoadMap(mapname); };