Re: Messaging across threads using NSThread

[Riccardo Mottola]

Nicolas,

I did not use it because it is a Cocoa extension to OpenStep and I wanted to do it with the DO way.

Riccardo

Nicolas Roard wrote:

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Riccardo Mottola <address@hidden> wrote:
  

Hello,

in FTP (available in GAP, http://gap.nongnu.org) I do inter-thread messaging
with the precise goal to have threads perform operations on the main thread
GUI operations.

I set up DO between the app itself this way:
    

I was surprised that you did not mention performSelectorOnMainThread:
(http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSObject_Class/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm/NSObject/performSelectorOnMainThread:withObject:waitUntilDone:)
but it sadly doesn't seem to be implemented on gnustep (I was sure it
was !?).