On Aug 14, 2013, at 09:21:25, Graham Cox <appt...@me.com> wrote: > Doesn't the main event loop need to run for the window to visibly close? At > least the modal session has to finish. If the completion code is run > synchronously, it will inevitably delay this until the main loop runs.
That must be the case, but it's a poor design. The modal session has finished. > You claim that opening the file on a thread doesn't help - I would expect it > to since the main loop can run much sooner. I didn't claim it didn't help. I said it doesn't work in our case. Were we a simple Cocoa app without years of legacy and cross-platform code to contend with, then yeah, we could easily stick the file opening code in a background thread. -- Steve Mills office: 952-818-3871 home: 952-401-6255 cell: 612-803-6157 _______________________________________________ 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