Re: additional problem with NSRunLoop on Windows

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 23 Feb 2006, at 01:53, Lloyd Dupont wrote:

> Im writing a .NET desktop application on Windows.
> However I'm using GNUstep to power the data part of my application  
> (which is still evolving on MacOSX).
>
> Recently I had problem with the NSNotificationQueue which needed to  
> be triggered manually and I was advised to use something along this  
> line:
>
> [[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop]
>    runMode: @"NSDefaultRunLoopMode"
>    beforeDate: (NSDate*) [NSDate distantPast]]
>
> So did I and it fixed the problem I was looking at.
>
> But now my application behave very strangely.
> For example if my (GNUstep aware) windows is in the background and  
> I click on it it receive (in this order)
> mouse up (first ?!)
> mouse down (second ?!)
>
> whereas it should receive (and it does without the NSRunLoop trick):
> mouse down
> mouse up
>
> ouch.....
> I noticed that in some other case GNUstep do some weird thing with  
> my event loop sometimes....

Well, that needs tracking down/fixing then ...
Can you give me testcase code to demonstrate the problem so I can try  
debugging it?

> So the questions are:
> 1. is there a way to fix that? (I think I will revert to my idea of  
> using GSNotifyASAP())

GSNotifyASAP is for internal use by the library ... not a good idea  
to try using it in a user app.

> 2. even though I'mnot running a GNUstep app, is ther some method  
> calling the NSRunLoop without me knowing?

Maybe ... depends what you are doing ... things like NSConnection,  
NSURL, NSFileHandle, NSTask, and possible a few others will  run the  
run loop in some circumstances.