Updating Bindings Problem

[mick...@gmail.com]

I have a label that displays status... it starts out "searching...", next it should display "rendering...", and finally, "Matched n results".

It works find except after updating the observable that changes the status to searching, the label does not change and jumps directly to Matched results. It takes about 5 seconds to render the results, and even though I update the observable right before setting the observable array to my data... the label doesn't update.  When I place an alert box between the status change and the setting of the data, the label changes.

Is there a way to force knockout to handle its existing events (show the new value of the bound element) before continuing to render what's about to come (when I apply the newly returned data to the observableArray - which causes 5 seconds of processing)?

Thanks,

Mick

[Casey Corcoran]

The way you've worded your question is a bit confusing… 

Sounds like you've got a blocking script (for 5 secs, wow!) and you're not seeing the observable update because of it. So I would probably do something like:

statusLabel("searching…");

// Data is returned from server

statusLabel("rendering…");

setTimeout( processStuff, 0 );

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Casey Corcoran

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[Mick Owen]

Thank you Casey, that worked... although I was hoping for a way to tell knockout to process the bindings that need updating before continuing...