/// <summary>
/// Generate the preview in seperate thread.
/// </summary>
private void generatePreview()
{
// Fire event to tell MainForm to update the settings
if (GeneretePreview != null)
{
GeneretePreview(this, EventArgs.Empty);
}
populateEpisodeComboBox();
string tempPreviewDir = Path.GetTempPath() + ConstantSettings.TempPreviewDirName;
if (Directory.Exists(tempPreviewDir))
{
try
{
Directory.Delete(tempPreviewDir, true);
}
catch
{
//UtilsMsg.showErrMsg("Unable to delete the temporary directory at:\n" + tempPreviewDir);
}
}
// Create the temporary directory
try
{
Directory.CreateDirectory(tempPreviewDir);
}
catch
{
UtilsMsg.showErrMsg("Cannot write to " + tempPreviewDir + "\nTry checking the directory's permissions.");
return;
}
Logger.Instance.info("Preview: GO!");
Logger.Instance.writeSettingsToLog();
// Start the worker thread
try
{
WorkerVars workerVars = new WorkerVars(null, tempPreviewDir, WorkerVars.SubsProcessingType.Preview);
// Create a background thread
BackgroundWorker bw = new BackgroundWorker();
bw.DoWork += new DoWorkEventHandler(bw_DoWork);
bw.RunWorkerCompleted += new RunWorkerCompletedEventHandler(bw_RunWorkerCompleted);
// Create a progress dialog on the UI thread
dialogProgress = new DialogProgress();
bw.RunWorkerAsync(workerVars);
// Lock up the UI with this modal progress form
// TODO: for some reason, on Mono/Linux the parent dialog is not
// re-enabled after the child modal goes away, leaving the form
// permanently grayed out. So as a workaround, we use Show() instead of
// ShowDialog()
//dialogProgress.ShowDialog();
dialogProgress.Show();
//dialogProgress = null;
}
catch (Exception e1)
{
UtilsMsg.showErrMsg("Something went wrong before preview could be generated.\n" + e1);
return;
}
}