Multithreading certain functions

[danielmiller]

Is there a way to keep PM from becoming unresponsive during sorting?

-Daniel Miller

[Kirk Baker]

Daniel,

Is there a way to keep PM from becoming unresponsive during sorting?

No.  PM would be quite unusable if the order of thumbnails spontaneously changed while you were trying to work with it.  I can't see any other way to do it than the way it is done now.

-Kirk

[danielmiller]

I see your point. I tend to work on more than one sheet of thumbnails at the same time though. It would be great to be able to work on another separate tab of thumbs while the other is unavailable due to the sorting.

Is that possible?

-Daniel Miller

[Kirk Baker]

Daniel,

I see your point. I tend to work on more than one sheet of thumbnails at the same time though. It would be great to be able to work on another separate tab of thumbs while the other is unavailable due to the sorting.

Is that possible?

Not currently.  All sorting is performed on the the event thread which means no user-events are processed during the sort.  I would have to make the sorting done on another thread and lockout only that one Contact Sheet tab until the thread completed.  This would be some fairly tricky programming that I wouldn't want to begin without some serious thought.

-Kirk

[danielmiller]

Ok, well thanks for listening.