Re: Recent drawing optimizations

[Stefan Urbanek]

On 2003-04-01 17:13:29 +0200 Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard@brainstorm.co.uk> 
wrote:

> On Tuesday, April 1, 2003, at 03:56  pm, Alexander Malmberg wrote:
>
> > > The whole notion of mutiple threads explicitly or implicitly
> > > interafaceing with the gui seems rather dangerous to me, but I guess
> > > that shouldn't concern -gui.
> >
> > I agree, I'm not certain that we should provide any thread-safety in
> > -gui at all. Eventually, it'll all have to be drawn in one thread
> > anyway. What did OPENSTEP do?
>
> I'm fairly sure it said you must only access the appkit stuff from a single 
> thread.

I have found that there is NSApplication + 
(void)detachDrawingThread:(SEL)selector toTarget:(id)target 
withObject:(id)argument.

What is its purpose? Should not it be, that this method will create another 
thread, and appkit will be aware of that tread so it can perform drawing 
operations?

Stefan