From: benjohn@...
Date: 2007-01-04T21:22:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Cocoa Run Loop

Spooq:
> On 1/3/07, Benjohn Barnes <benjohn@fysh.org> wrote:
>> I'd like to be able to fire up the NSApplication's run loop from
>> within a new NSThread.
>
> I can't comment on any Mac-specific code, but in my experience mixing
> threading/event models rarely works. Things like select() get
> confused.

I've realised two things.

First, I don't know what's going on - I'm reading the big Cocoa
Programming book by Scott Anguish et al, and it's helping. There's lots
about the cocoa / objective c run time interface at the back. I presume
this is how the Ruby Cocoa bridge works. Anyway, it's interesting, and
perhaps it'll help. I suspect that at least one problem is that the Ruby
interpreter is unlikely to be thread safe and re-entrant. Perhaps it is,
I don't know.

Second, starting a thread is just one approach. What I'm after is a
minimal way of:
  * Getting the application loop going while also
  * Continuing to have IRB interaction.

So I'll keep on working on that :)

Cheers,
  Benjohn