Hi Ken, > How are you spawning your threads? > If you use Cocoa methods, then they automatically retain the object which is > the target of the selector and the argument object for the life of the > thread. So, you may be getting this automatically without realizing it. If > not, then it should be easy to arrange.
thanks, i used cocoa methods but didn't know the object is being retained. That simplifies the code how it looks :) > If you're using some other technique to spawn your threads, you can just > retain the object before spawning the thread and then have the thread work > function or method release it before exiting. The retain and the release > don't have to occur on the same thread. The problem i still have - is the display link. It is a system thread, that calls a method periodically. When i stop display link (while the method is being executed) - this execution of the method will be the last, it won't be called anymore. As i described in the first post, the object is being used from the display link callback. I can't pass an object that comfortable, as i did with cocoa methods (unfortunately). I can't retain an object before starting display link as you suggested here - because i can't know when this "before exiting" time happens - display link's thread is a CoreVideo framework's thread, and it just calls my function repeatedly. I was thinking about using some custom flag (like, BOOL thisIsTheLastTimeTheDisplayLinkMethodIsBeingCalled) protected by a critical section, and which is set when i stop "System high-priority display link thread". But the solution would look very ad-hoc and hardly readable, hardly maintainable when the amount of code grows. I am wondering maybe there's a prettier way to do it. Thanks _______________________________________________ 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
