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Re: NSRecursiveLock problems
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Re: NSRecursiveLock problems


  • Subject: Re: NSRecursiveLock problems
  • From: Stuart Carnie <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 23:03:28 -0700

Check out PLBlocks <http://code.google.com/p/plblocks/> if you want to use
blocks on 10.5.

Cheers,

Stu

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:49 PM, PCWiz <email@hidden> wrote:

> Well what I meant by delegates and selectors was like the secondary thread
> calls a selector on the main thread (using performSelectorOnMainThread) but
> I guess I got a little confused there :)
>
> I would like to use blocks, however I'm using the 10.5 SDK so as far as I
> know blocks cannot be used. Is there a way to get
> performSelectorOnMainThread to return a value? That would solve my issue,
> because I could pass on the NSAttributedString to a method on the main
> thread that figures out the size and all, then returns the value.
>
> Independent Cocoa Developer, Macatomy Software
> http://macatomy.com
>
>
> On 2009-12-22, at 12:22 PM, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
>
> >
> > On Dec 22, 2009, at 11:19 AM, PCWiz wrote:
> >
> >> Is there any easy way to execute a portion of code on the main thread
> without going through the mess of delegates and selectors?
> >
> >
> > Delegates have *nothing* to do with main thread execution.   Selectors a
> bit orthogonal, too.
> >
> > If you want to execute something on the main thread, I would suggest
> using NSOperationQueue's notion of main queue and enqueuing an operation
> with a block:
> >
> > - (void)addOperationWithBlock:(void (^)(void))block
> >
> > Quite straightforward.
> >
> > b.bum
>
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