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RE: drawing NOW in a callback, boom!
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RE: drawing NOW in a callback, boom!


  • Subject: RE: drawing NOW in a callback, boom!
  • From: Paul Cezanne <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 21:15:57 -0400

At 6:44 PM -0400 6/4/02, Jonathan E. Jackel wrote:
>You're not supposed to touch the GUI from a thread other than the main
>thread. This has been discussed ad nauseum.

Really?

http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/TasksAndConcepts/ProgrammingTopics/Multithreading/Tasks/appkit.html

suggests otherwise, explicitly stating that NSBezierPath was thread safe.

Now, just to make life harder, I'm not using NSThread, I'm using pthreads (the threaded part of my application, actually a whole lot of it, is cross platform, and no, we have looked into GnuStep yet).
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