Re: Recent drawing optimizations

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Tuesday, April 1, 2003, at 03:51  pm, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> On 21st Feb I modified/fixed NSDistributedNotificationCenter.m so that
> notifications could arrive in any thread.  Before that, notifications 
> would
> only ever arrive in the thread which made the initial connection to the
> distributed notification server (I considered this a minor bug).
>
> I don't *think* you are supposed to make assumptions about which thread
> a notification will arrive in ... but I'm not sure.

I checked the MacOS-X documentation ... and in the 
NSDistributedDocumentationCenter class description it specifically 
states that while notifications are usually delivered in the main 
thread, they may be delivered in other threads.  So I think the base 
library behavior is correct, and the GNUmail code needs to be modified 
to use -performSelectorOnMainThread:withObject:waitUntilDone: to do the 
-updateStatusLabelWithMessage: