Re: interrupting a thread/run loop

FROM : Ken Thomases
DATE : Fri Aug 01 14:52:51 2008

On Aug 1, 2008, at 6:43 AM, Chris Idou wrote:

> I have a Cocoa thread waiting on events in a run loop. But I want to 
> be able to give the waiting thread a "kick" to make it wake up and 
> re-load its context.
>
> I realise I could write my own custom run loop input source, but it 
> seems like overkill if I could install a simple run loop observer 
> and somehow just wake it up when I want it to re-initialize. Is 
> there a way to do that?


You don't have to write a custom run-loop source.  Just add an NSPort 
instance as a source and message it for the "kick".

Cheers,
Ken