Is there an event for when a UIImage has finished loading

Question

I am displaying a UIImage view with this code:

NSURL *imageUrl = [[NSURL alloc]initWithString:@"http://..."];
NSData *imageData = [[NSData alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:imageUrl];
UIImage *audioArt =[[UIImage alloc] initWithData:imageData];
UIImageView *artView =[[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:audioArt];

artView.contentMode = UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFit;
artView.autoresizesSubviews = NO;
artView.frame = viewRef.bounds;
[artView setAutoresizingMask:UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight];
[artView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor blackColor]];

[viewRef setBackgroundColor:[UIColor blackColor]];
[viewRef addSubview:artView];

Is there an event in Objective C to tell when this UIImage has finished loading or when the UIImageView has finished displaying the image?

Many thanks.

Answer 1

in your .h

@interface YourClass : YourSuperclass<NSURLConnectionDataDelegate>

@property (nonatomic) NSMutableData *imageData;
@property (nonatomic) NSUInteger totalBytes;
@property (nonatomic) NSUInteger receivedBytes;

And somewhere call

NSURL *imageUrl = [[NSURL alloc]initWithString:@"http://..."];
NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL: imageUrl];
NSURLConnection *connection = [NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:request delegate:self startImmediately:YES];

And also implement the delegate methods

- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveResponse:(NSURLResponse *)response
{
    NSHTTPURLResponse *httpResponse = (NSHTTPURLResponse *) urlResponse;
    NSDictionary *dict = httpResponse.allHeaderFields;
    NSString *lengthString = [dict valueForKey:@"Content-Length"];
    NSNumberFormatter *formatter = [[NSNumberFormatter alloc] init];
    NSNumber *length = [formatter numberFromString:lengthString];
    self.totalBytes = length.unsignedIntegerValue;

    [self.imageData = [[NSMutableData alloc] initWithLength:self.totalBytes];
}

- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveData:(NSData *)data
{
    [self.imageData appendData:data];
    self.receivedBytes += data.length;

    // Actual progress is self.receivedBytes / self.totalBytes
}

- (void)connectionDidFinishLoading:(NSURLConnection *)connection
{
    imageView.image = [UIImage imageWithData:self.imageData];
}

- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didFailWithError:(NSError *)error
{
    //handle error
}

Update:

Since NSMutableData initWithLength: creates a data object whose raw data is filled with zeros, replace initWithLength: with just init and it will works.

Answer 2

UIImage doesn't have any delegate or callback which tells you about its successful loading.

If you are getting the image from any url, you can use NSURL's delegates and notifications to track if you received the image or not.

Also you can achieve it as :

- (void)loadImage:(NSString *)filePath {
    [self performSelectorInBackground:@selector(loadImageInBackground:) withObject:filePath];
}

- (void)loadImageInBackground:(NSString *)filePath {
   @autoreleasepool{
        UIImage *image = [[UIImage alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:filePath];
        [self performSelectorOnMainThread:@selector(didLoadImageInBackground:) withObject:image waitUntilDone:YES];
    }
}

- (void)didLoadImageInBackground:(UIImage *)image {
    self.imageView.image = image;
}