Re: Multi-threaded AppKit examples?
Re: Multi-threaded AppKit examples?
- Subject: Re: Multi-threaded AppKit examples?
- From: Nathan Day <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 02:03:33 +1030
You might be able to do something with NSApplication's
postEvent:atStart:, I haven't looked at it myself yet, I don't known
enough about how event work yet.
On Monday, January 28, 2002, at 11:05 PM, Fraser Speirs wrote:
Hi,
I'm working on a cocoa app where we periodically request data from
another application (specifically, the current song in iTunes) via
Applescript. The way we do it is by invoking /usr/bin/osascript via
NSTask. This is slow and at the moment we do it in the UI thread,
leading to barely-acceptable responsiveness to the user.
I understand that I should use Distributed Objects to communicate
between the threads, but I'm kind of stuck with actually passing data
back and forth. It's just an NSString I want to return to the AppKit
thread to fill in a text field. I've looked at the examples on
developer.apple.com.
If anyone has an example of computing a result in another thread and
returning it to the AppKit thread, I'd *love* to get a look at it.