On Sep 26, 2015, at 1:03 PM, Eric Schlegel wrote: > >> On Sep 26, 2015, at 9:51 AM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: >> >> >>> On Sep 26, 2015, at 7:11 AM, Programmingkid <programmingk...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> It has seem like a rule that has been in place forever that an application >>> pauses processing when the mouse is down on a menu. Is there a way to make >>> the application continue processing even with the mouse down? >> >> No, that was only true in the old "classic" OS. In OS X, menu tracking runs >> in a different thread and doesn't block the app's thread(s). > > No, that’s not true. Menu tracking runs on the main thread and does block > other event handling on the main thread for the app that owns the menus. This > is exactly the same as any other modal event tracking, such as pushing on a > button, which also blocks other event processing on the main thread. > > However, there are the usual ways around this: > > - an event loop timer (using NSEventTrackingRunLoopMode) > - using a separate thread, dispatch queue, etc. > - using a separate process if necessary > > -eric
I did try using a separate thread, but that caused part of the application to stop responding to events. Thank you very much for this information. Would you have additional documentation or sample code I could look at? The event loop timer info looks interesting. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
