Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] Long processing?

[Neil S. <ne...@ha...>]

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Jonathan Paisley wrote:
> OS-level threads don't work because Ruby doesn't support them, and  ruby
> threads don't work reliably because of unpleasant interactions  with the
> ObjC exception handling mechanism.
> 
> I made a patch to ruby and rubycocoa a while ago that attempts to  work
> around the latter problem - i.e., it lets you use Ruby threads  in a
> RubyCocoa application.
> 
> If you're able to recompile both ruby and rubycocoa, you could give  it
> a shot. It's still necessary to make AppKit calls on the main  thread
> (use self.performSelector...), but you can do ruby-level  background
> tasks ok. I've attached the two patches - one to  ruby-1.8.2 and one to
> RubyCocoa.

The patches work just great here.  Thanks!

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Neil Stevens - ne...@ha...

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