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 23:11:53 -0500
Chris Idou (email@hidden) on 2008-12-03 11:00 PM said:
>> how will you eventually make it shut down even if you do
>> do that, or will it just hang out there until the application
>> terminates?
>
>Good question. I had assumed that something like
>[myThread performSelector:@selector(exit) onThread:myThread ...
>
>would do the trick. Would this be a "nice" way to do it?
Well, the docs for exit say "Invoking this method should be avoided as
it does not give your thread a chance to clean up any resources it
allocated during its execution".
You said you wanted your thread to 'patiently wait for
performSelector:onThread: calls'? When do you want it to stop waiting?
If at app quit time, then just leave it around. If earlier, then just
send it a message to clean itself up (dealloc memory, etc.) and
invalidate the timer. Then you are back to having no runloop sources
and voila.
Sean
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