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Re: Synchronizing GUI-code necessary?

To be better stated (out my attempt at it) that events are received and handled in serial fashion by the main thread's run-loop (or sometimes by a secondary nested run-loop). A Cocoa application can have any number of threads if you code it use them. In general you do not need to worry about it when using the normal event process paradigm provided you.

I would review docs on event handling [1] and run-loops [2]. Also docs on general application architecture [3] (the topics of most relevance are being worked on it looks like).

-Shawn

[1] <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ BasicEventHandling/index.html>
[2] <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ InputControl/index.html>
[3] <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ AppArchitecture/index.html>

On Mar 30, 2004, at 8:31 PM, Michael Rothwell wrote:

A Cocoa GUI is single-threaded.


Michael Rothwell
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On Mar 30, 2004, at 8:49 PM, Christoffer Lerno wrote:

Hi,

I'm pretty new to cocoa, so I run into all sorts of questions. One is
in regards to receiving input from the GUI.

Let's say I have code like this:

- (void)keyDown:(NSEvent *)theEvent
{
myValue=myValue2+myValue3;
myValue3=myValue2/2+myValue;
myValue2=myValue/2;
}

Do I need to synchronize this block? I.e. are the messages from the
GUI multithreaded and do I need to worry about it?
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References: 
 >Synchronizing GUI-code necessary? (From: Christoffer Lerno <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Synchronizing GUI-code necessary? (From: Michael Rothwell <email@hidden>)



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