/// <summary>
/// Displays a printable.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="c"> The printable to be displayed. </param>
/// <ramarks> Calls to this method are synchronized, i.e. it will finish displaying one printable before displaying the next. </remarks>
public void UpdateSync(IPrintable c)
{
// We have an additional UI update
Interlocked.Increment(ref workCounter);
//Must run on the main (UI) thread
if (InvokeRequired)
{
Invoke((MethodInvoker) delegate { uiUpdateTimer.Start(); });
}
else
{
uiUpdateTimer.Start();
}
lock (this)
{
// During debugging we want VS to catch exceptions so we can inspect the program state at the point where the exception was thrown.
// For release builds we catch the execption here and display a message so the user knows that that they shouldn't wait for the generalization.
#if !DEBUG
try
{
#endif
DisplayMessage("busy...");
// Update
var content = new InfoPanelContent();
c.InfoPanelText(content, getFormatFromGUI());
content.finalize();
currentInfoPanelPrintable = c;
infoPanelQueue.Enqueue(content);
#if !DEBUG
}
catch (Exception e)
{
// Notify user
Interlocked.Decrement(ref workCounter);
DisplayMessage($"An exception was thrown. Please report this bug to [email protected].\nDescription of the exception: {e.Message}");
Console.WriteLine(e);
}
#endif
}
}
