Re: Concurrent NSOperation

FROM : Shawn Erickson
DATE : Wed Nov 21 18:50:40 2007

On Nov 21, 2007 9:40 AM, Keith Duncan <<email_removed>> wrote:
> I'm writing an NSOperation subclass which completes it's work
> asynchronously. As such I'm going to have to write a concurrent
> operation.
>
> The problem I have is that I don't want to have to setup my own
> 'runtime environment', quoted from the docs:
>
> "In your start method, you must prepare the operation for execution,
> which includes preparing the runtime environment for your operation.
> (For example, if you wanted to create a thread yourself, you would do
> it here.) Once your runtime environment is established, you can call
> any methods or functions you want to subsequently start your
> operation. Your implementation of the start method should not invoke
> super."
>
> I simply need to mark the operation as complete when it receives an
> NSNotification. I could setup a thread but that seems a little
> pointless since that NSOperation is supposed to handle it automatically.


Why do you think you need to setup a thread? They only list that as
something you _could_ do at that point.

-Shawn