Hi, It sounds to me like you are interested in -[NSObject performSelectorOnMainThread:withObject:waitUntilDone:modes:].
-Ken On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Frederik Slijkerman < frede...@ultrafractal.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working on a Photoshop plugin that uses a Cocoa UI, while of course > Photoshop is still Carbon currently. The plugin runs as a modal window > pretty much all the time. > > Now I've run into a problem: when I post a custom event to the main event > queue using [NSApp postEvent], it is never processed. As far as I can tell, > this is because [NSApp runModalForWindow] calls into Carbon to actually run > the modal window, and while Carbon does handle mouse, keyboard and timer > messages fine (by sending them directly to the window involved), it > apparently doesn't know anything about any Cocoa events that are waiting in > the main event queue. > > Does this sound familiar to anyone? Is there any way I can work around > this? > > This is the code I use to post the event: > > NSEvent *event = [NSEvent otherEventWithType:NSApplicationDefined > location:NSZeroPoint modifierFlags:0 timestamp:0 windowNumber:0 > context:0 subtype:0 data1:reinterpret_cast<NSInteger>(h) > data2:reinterpret_cast<NSInteger>(data)]; > [NSApp postEvent:event atStart:NO]; > > I've thought about replacing postEvent with a timer that would fire > immediately, but it looks like this wouldn't work from a different thread, > as timers work directly with NSRunLoop and NSRunLoop has a stern warning > regarding thread safety... > > So basically what I'm looking for is a thread-safe way to add an event to > the main event queue, in such a way that it will be processed even when a > modal window is running, this all in a Carbon application. > > Thanks in advance! > > Best regards, > Frederik Slijkerman > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/kenferry%40gmail.com > > This email sent to kenfe...@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
