[MacRuby-devel] NSTimer

Jordan K. Hubbard jkh at apple.com
Sun Oct 11 14:10:09 PDT 2009


On Oct 11, 2009, at 1:45 PM, Robert Rice wrote:

> 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.

[ jkh jumps up and down yelling "GCD!  GCD!" until he is dragged away]

> 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?

File an enhancement request radar via http://bugreport.apple.com.   
Believe it or not, those do get read!

- Jordan



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