On Mar 20, 2010, at 4:24 AM, Philippe Sismondi
wrote:
Had I not been compelled to support OS X 10.4 I would have re-
written the whole thing to use something better than threads - GCD
or NSOperationQueue capabilities are said to be safer, although I
have not yet learned them.
Let's nip
Thanks all. Those suggestions help.
BTW, I inherited the code that does the offending "while" loop. It came from
someone's previous attempt to solve exactly one problem: that the secondary
thread might finish before the main thread's modal window was even up. I hope I
have solved this by start
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Sent: Fri, March 19, 2010 3:35:40 PM
Subject: Re: App modal window and secondary thread
On Mar 19, 2010, at 2:31 PM, Philippe Sismondi wrote:
> 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 u
On Mar 19, 2010, at 2:31 PM, Philippe Sismondi wrote:
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
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
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 severa
