Re: Threads in Apps
Re: Threads in Apps
- Subject: Re: Threads in Apps
- From: "Nick Emery" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 19:46:54 +0100
- Organization: Peramon technology Ltd
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Apple has made it quite clear that they won't document things that have
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already been documented a zillion times. For Obj-C users, this means they
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get to go to a UNIX store to buy a BSD book...Apple's definitely not gonna
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reinvent the BSD wheel. For Java users, this means you get to go pick up
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your favorite Java reference/manual and read up on threads. On a side note,
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I definitely agree that Apple shouldn't redocument the common stuff...that
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way they can focus their energy on the docs we *really* need for the cocoa
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specific interfaces.
thats fine - apple don't need to document java threads in general. what they do need to do is document how you use cocoa and the appkit in conjunction with java threads. once this is documented, it will then be possible to implement applications that do background processing in subthreads and then update the ui part in the main thread when the results become available.
--nikki