[Rubycocoa-talk] New to programing; thread question

[Ferlander D. <fer...@gm...>]

I've been having some trouble. My app relies on a executing a ruby script in
intervals of hours. During the intervening time the script stays in a sleep
loop. The problem is that it needs to update the UI with at least some
information every once in a while. I'm currently using a progress bar,
because for some reason it can refresh from inside a running script. I don't
think that's enough though. Of course, ideally I would also like to find a
solution to the beachballing cursor and generally unresponsive UI.
I found
http://minikidsgames.sourceforge.net/rubycocoa/tips-and-pitfalls-in-using-rubycocoa/#content_Object_3
but unfortunately it's over my head.

I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions, or if there might be a more
obvious solution that I've missed so far. I'm in love with the program I'm
writing and I want it to be usable by the general public. =)

Ferlander