Re: How to make a RunLoop patiently do nothing?
Re: How to make a RunLoop patiently do nothing?
- Subject: Re: How to make a RunLoop patiently do nothing?
- From: "Sean McBride" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 22:49:37 -0500
Chris Idou (email@hidden) on 2008-12-03 10:44 PM said:
>I want to have a separate thread in my app which does time consuming
>things. I want to assign tasks to this thread using performSelector:onThread.
>
>Now you can't have a runloop with no input sources, or it exits
>immediately. So how do I start a thread with a runloop that does nothing
>except patiently wait for performSelector:onThread: calls?
Could you just add a timer to the runloop? The timer could be periodic,
firing every 42 years.
Sean
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