Re: Event loop in a secondary thread? Nibless Cocoa?

FROM : Jean-Daniel Dupas
DATE : Sun May 04 11:55:35 2008

Le 4 mai 08 à 05:18, Jens Alfke a écrit :

>
> On 3 May '08, at 8:13 PM, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
>

>> Thanks! I'm really glad to hear that this is a known problem, and 
>> that there are solutions, even if it is "pretty tricky stuff". Can 
>> you or someone else point me to a sample piece of code that could 
>> get me started?

>
> I'm not sure, actually. Check the last few weeks of list archives; I 
> remember a thread whose subject was something relevant about 
> promoting a command-line process.
>

>> Indeed, the nib file (if there is one) would be right next to the 
>> Visual module (in site-packages/visual). But initial reading of 
>> documentation, or at least of examples, made it look like you say 
>> something like "LoadNib", with no option to say where to get it, 
>> because the assumption is that the nib file is in a standard place 
>> in the app's bundle. Is there some kind of nib-loading procedure 
>> that takes a file location as an argument? I don't have anything 
>> against nib files in principle; I just don't know how to find them 
>> when my software isn't an app.

>
> I can't speak for the Carbon nib APIs, but look at the NSBundle method
> + (BOOL)loadNibFile:(NSString *)fileName externalNameTable:
> (NSDictionary *)contextwithZone:(NSZone *)zone
>
> The fileName parameter is an absolute path.



Yes, and NSNib do this too, if you ask it (and if you don't want to 
have to deal with the externalNameTable).

- [NSNib initWithContentsOfURL:];
- [NSNib instantiateNibWithOwner:topLevelObjects:];