UIActivityIndicatorView only showing up after page is loaded

[simply07]

Howdy...

I'm trying to get a UIActivityIndicatorView to appear while a new view is being loaded.

The 2nd view i am trying to load is sourcing the information from the internet and sometimes takes a few minutes to load. So far, i can see my activityInicator once the page is about to be loaded


I start the animation off of a button that is loading the view.

-(IBAction)viewBlog{
	[self.activityIndicator startAnimating];
	
	BlogViewController *blogView = [[BlogViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"BlogViewController" bundle:nil];
		
	[self.navigationController pushViewController:blogView animated:YES];
	
	[blogView release];
}

But it only seems to load once my blogView has been loaded..

Can anyone help me figure out how to get the activityIndicator to show up as soon as i press my button!!!

Thanks for any and all the help

[_sjc_]

You need to return control to UIKit -- by returning from your method -- to let it update the activity indicator. Try splitting you method like this:

-(IBAction)viewBlog{
	[self.activityIndicator startAnimating];
	
    [self performSelector: @selector(_viewBlog) withObject: nil afterDelay: 0.0];
}

-(void)_viewBlog {
	BlogViewController *blogView = [[BlogViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"BlogViewController" bundle:nil];
		
	[self.navigationController pushViewController:blogView animated:YES];
	
	[blogView release];
}

[simply07]

Thank you so much...

I understand what you mean, but i'm gonna look into the bit of code you send because perfromSelector is new to me!!!

I really appreciate the quick responce, thanks again