[MacRuby-devel] NSTimer

[Robert Rice]

Hi Laurent:

NSTimer wil work well for my app except I will still need to use a  
thread to read data from my GPS receiver unless I can find a non- 
blocking serial I/O package.

I see that Apple has developed a "Core Location Framework" for the  
iPhone but I don't see any documentation to indicate that I could use  
it in a Cocoa environment. That would be a preferable solution not  
only for portability but also to solve the problem I have had for  
years with multiple applications trying to read data from my receiver  
at the same time. The Core Location Framework should work on OSX if it  
can find any suitable GPS receiver attached to the local network; then  
GPS nav apps could get the position info from the framework as on the  
iPhone. Is there any way to suggest this project to Apple?

Bob Rice


On Oct 11, 2009, at 3:58 PM, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:

> In theory any runtime exception should be caught by the runloop and  
> you should see a line in your Xcode console.
>
> As for your timer question, using NSTimer is definitely good in case  
> your callback doesn't do too much. Since this will all be run in the  
> main thread through the run loop, if you see some performance  
> problems it might be better to switch to a Thread instead.
>
> Laurent
>
> On Oct 11, 2009, at 12:55 PM, Robert Rice wrote:
>
>> Hi Matt:
>>
>> I  am using the most recent build.
>>
>> I get a traceback for compile errors but not for execution errors  
>> on the NS run loop.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>> On Oct 11, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Matt Aimonetti wrote:
>>