Re: NSOpenPanel runModal on a dispatch
Re: NSOpenPanel runModal on a dispatch
- Subject: Re: NSOpenPanel runModal on a dispatch
- From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:28:49 -0800
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012, at 10:40 AM, Mike Abdullah wrote:
>
> On 16 Dec 2012, at 17:20, Tamas Nagy wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately that doesn't help.
> >
> > I think the issue should be related to dispatches, because it won't happen if I just call performSelectorOnMainThread...
>
> Can you post that variant of your code then, please?
Now that I'm actually awake, I'm able to reproduce Tamas's issue with a
bare-bones Cocoa App on 10.7.5. Here's my app delegate:
@implementation AppDelegate
- (NSInteger)doOpenPanel:(id)unused;
{
return [[NSOpenPanel openPanel] runModal];
}
- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(NSNotification *)aNotification
{
#if 0
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
[self doOpenPanel:nil];
});
#else
[self performSelector:@selector(doOpenPanel:) withObject:nil
afterDelay:0];
#endif
}
@end
If you go with the dispatch approach, you get the eternal spinner, and
files never show up—or if they do, their QuickLook previews never show
up. Notably, you can still interact with the open panel. If you go with
-performSelector:::, it works fine.
My guess is that NSOpenPanel is doing some work on a background thread,
and that work is trying to use the main queue to inform the open panel
of its completion. By using the dispatch_async approach, the main queue
is blocked, and the background thread can't inform the open panel. The
-performSelector::: approach uses a timer, so the nested invocation of
the runloop that -runModal performs is still able to dequeue the
background task completion's block off the main queue.
--Kyle Sluder
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