Re: interrupting a thread/run loop

FROM : Jean-Daniel Dupas
DATE : Fri Aug 01 15:00:12 2008

Le 1 août 08 à 14:52, Ken Thomases a écrit :

> 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


Yes, and on 10.5, you can also use the method - [NSObject 
performSelector:onThread:withObject:waitUntilDone:], that will wake up 
the target thread runloop.