On 2010-03-19, at 4:56 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: > > On Mar 19, 2010, at 9:30 AM, Philippe Sismondi wrote: > >> while (![NSApp modalWindow]) // probably not thread-safe, but harmless?? >> NSLog(@"polling for modalWindow...."); > > That's a bad idea, I think. You're making an assumption about NSApplication's > implementation (I can think of several ways that this method might be > dangerously non-thread-safe), and you're also creating a spin-loop that's > going to chew up a lot of CPU while it's running. > > I couldn't really follow your argument about why you have to do this. You're > already not starting the background thread until the modal window pops up. > > —Jens
Jens: Right - that's exactly my question - I don't know that I have to do this while loop. Is starting the thread after the window pops up enough? Is there anything about *not* waiting for NSApplication to set this window as its modal window that might cause a problem with getting input from the window? I suspect that your reaction means that the answer is: get rid of the while loop. Thanks. Best, - Phil -_______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com