Question

Would anyone know why the bmlabel is not updated? and the log “score” shows nothing? Without GCD, it works fine, but it blocks the ui (i would like to show the numbers between 100 to 500 for example, showing 101, 102…499, 500 very fast, instead of going directly from “100” to “500”). So i wanted to use another thread to calculate it, even if i’m not sure it’s the best way. Here’s my code :

//in .h, i imported :
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>


//in .m
@implementation ScoreLayer

-(void)updateScore:(int)num{
    CCLOG(@"hello");
    int newScore = score+num;
    //dispatch_queue_t queue = dispatch_queue_create("Test", 0);
    dispatch_queue_t main = dispatch_get_main_queue();
    dispatch_queue_t queue = dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 0ul);

    dispatch_async(queue, ^{
        for (int i=score; i< newScore; i++){
            score++;
            CCLOG(@"score:%i", score);
            NSString *str = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", score];

            dispatch_async(main, ^{
                [bmlabel setString:str];
            });

        }
    });
    score = newScore;
}

-(id) init
{
    if( (self=[super init])) {
        bmlabel = [CCLabelBMFont labelWithString:@"14763" fntFile:@"TestFont.fnt"];
        bmlabel.anchorPoint = ccp(0, 0.5f);
        bmlabel.position = ccp(0,250.0f);
        [self addChild:bmlabel z:200]; 
            score = 14763;
    }
    return self;
}

Thanks a lot

Answer 1

I assume that score property is a __block type because you’re changing it inside block in line:

 score++;

because your block is executed with dispatch_async main loop continues execution and most likely encounters score = newScore; before your block even starts. When your block is about to run, score is already equal newScore and your loop’s will never work, because its condition expression will return false. In:

for (int i=score; i< newScore; i++)

i will equal to newScore and because newScore < newScore is false, your loop will never run.

I suggest to delete last line in your updateScore: method.

score = newScore;