Re: Asynchronous compatibility of NSDocument read/write methods

2016-04-17 Thread Mike Abdullah
Have you read any of the documentation? Your question sounds rather like you haven’t if I’m honest! If using the asynchronous features of the document system, the read and writing methods are still called and execute synchronously, but on a worker thread. There are various APIs built into the

Asynchronous compatibility of NSDocument read/write methods

2016-04-16 Thread Daryle Walker
The NSDocument class has some core methods for you to override to read and write data from/to disk. Are those called from the main thread? If so, can you defer the actual work to an NSOperation or something? If you do so, what is your GUI supposed to do/show? Or will the window not be shown