From what I can make out threads such as NSThreads or NSOperations are not supported by macruby yet. On 18 May 2009, at 13:55, Karl Varga wrote:
I am wondering whether MacRuby 0.5 supports Cocoa threads? I have an application which runs in the background and which displays information in the system status bar (in a menu). It periodically logs into a website, retrives information and sets that information in the menu.
The problem is that if I run this loop in the awakeFromNib method it occupies the current thread and the menu is unresponsive until that method returns. I've tried creating Cocoa threads but my application goes haywire (in XCode it enters the debugger and is otherwise unresponsive).
What gives? Any idea how I can achieve what I want to do here? If the answer is POSIX threads or something, can I call back to (mac)ruby because that is where all my logic is?
Below is the code I've tried:
def awakeFromNib print NSThread.isMultiThreaded() # prints true
self .menu.performSelectorInBackground_withObject_(:loginAndWaitThread, nil)
NSThread .detachNewThreadSelector_toTarget_withObject_(:loginAndWaitThread, self.menu, nil) end
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