A bit puzzled ...seems like I need some advise here.
From a NSWindowController I create a modal dialog
[NSApp runModalForWindow:[self window]];
On a button click I am trying to use NSURLConnection to do retrieve
information in a asynchronous fashion
connection = [[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:request
delegate:self];
Unfortunately this only works when I afterwards enter this runloop
NSAutoreleasePool* pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
while(!terminated) {
if (![[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] runMode:NSDefaultRunLoopMode
beforeDate:[NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:100000]]) {
break;
}
[pool release];
pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
}
[pool release];
(the connectionDidFinishLoading:/connection:didFailWithError:
terminates the above loop)
Now I am a bit surprised. Shouldn't runModalForWindow: do pretty
much the same thing? The documentation states
"By default, for the connection to work correctly the calling
thread’s run loop must be operating in the default run loop mode.
See scheduleInRunLoop:forMode: to change the runloop and mode."
But I am a bit lost what to do with that information. I would assume
that
scheduleInRunLoop:[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop]
forMode:NSDefaultRunLoopMode
is the default anyway. Nevertheless I am targeting 10.4 and this is
only available since 10.5.
I found this response from Fraser
http://lists.apple.com/archives/aperture-dev/2008/Feb/msg00036.html
...but I would like to understand the "why". Do I really have to
spawn another thread for this? Or is it OK to process the run loop
like shown above? I have the feeling I am somehow fighting the
framework again here.
Comments?
cheers
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