On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Dave DeLong <davedel...@me.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm sure the answer to this is out there, but I having difficulty finding
> it.
>
> We've got an app that splits off two threads:  one to play some background
> music, and the other to count the beats that have passed so far.  We're
> doing beat counting with a timer (we know the bpm of the music), but we've
> got a problem:
>
> We split off a thread to have the beat timer (so it doesn't interfere with
> interface responsiveness), but we can't figure out how to keep the thread
> alive and open so that the timer can fire.  At first, the thread would die
> right after scheduling the timer on the thread's runloop.

Run the runloop in the secondary thread.

-Shawn
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