On 17, Jul, 2012, at 05:26 PM, Fritz Anderson <fri...@manoverboard.org> wrote:
> >> Could the problem be that I'm using the shared spell checker on multiple >> threads? > > YES. At least it's a very big item on your list of problems. I haven't found > any documentation that affirmatively says NSSpellChecker is thread-safe. > Therefore it isn't. It's in AppKit, which counts against it, and it manages a > UI facility, which excludes it. Oh, that's not good. I wanted to be spell checking multiple files in the background. I will need to think carefully if there's a way to call -checkSpellingOfString:startingAt on the main thread. Martin > > Try executing your checks on the main thread. Communicating the results to > the calling thread will require some care. > > — F > > -- > Fritz Anderson -- Xcode 4 Unleashed: Now in stores! -- > <http://x4u.manoverboard.org/> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Martin Hewitson Albert-Einstein-Institut Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik und Universitaet Hannover Callinstr. 38, 30167 Hannover, Germany Tel: +49-511-762-17121, Fax: +49-511-762-5861 E-Mail: martin.hewit...@aei.mpg.de WWW: http://www.aei.mpg.de/~hewitson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ 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
