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Re: [NSImage lockFocus] and threads

From what I hear, this is may or may not be a good thing. The view maintains a queue of lock/unlock calls so you can lock it as many times as you want in one thread, but I'm a bit nervous about the situation where one thread is interrupted inside a drawing call with an -unlockFocus call from the secondary thread. May I suggest that simply from a conceptual point of view, no two threads should ever share a view. For safety's sake, I suggest either putting a healthy number of locks around the view or simply not share it between threads.

Brendan Younger

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 >[NSImage lockFocus] and threads (From: Michael Horn <email@hidden>)



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