[MacRuby-devel] Threading Problems

Laurent Sansonetti lsansonetti at apple.com
Sat May 15 12:24:18 PDT 2010


Hi Jan,

Indeed this looks like a classic threading problem. I thought we eliminated most of these in 0.6.

What does your #update method do specifically? Also, do the problems disappear if you call #update only once from the main thread before starting the thread?

A minor (but likely irrelevant here) note: I think your drawRect: method might be called from the thread, which is AFAIK not supported in Cocoa. 

Laurent

On May 15, 2010, at 8:25 AM, Jan Kassens wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I’m writing a small widget application rendering a couple of NSView subclasses which update periodically.
> 
> The widgets are subclasses of [1] and added as subviews to my main view, but the more I add the more likely are some random errors thrown on initialization.
> The errors include a variety of failed assertions and seg faults (see [2] for examples) and don’t yield any helpful clues. I’m guessing that I’m dealing with something not thread-safe here.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong here? I’m doing all the drawing inside the drawRect(rect) method (or synchronously called methods) which I don’t call manually. “update” pulls data from various resources, but doesn’t draw.
> 
> 
> [1] WidgetView class: http://pastie.textmate.org/private/hwfozrwudk2lcwzker20q
> [2] Different Errors: http://pastie.textmate.org/private/vbp7iuw11ig26zxegzg
> 
> Jan
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