Re: Embedded lua and yielding to the application run loop (macOS)

[Eric Wing <ewmailing@...>]

On 2/19/20, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 1:16 PM Eric Wing <ewmailing@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Manually pumping the event loop on macOS can work in limited cases,
>> but can/will break down if your application uses/interacts other
>> system frameworks that depend on the native event loop. Apple has
>> private implementation details in their event loop pump which can't be
>> recreated through public APIs and some of their own implementations
>> seem to depend on these things (or have some kind of implicit
>> assumptions). For example, things with modal windows, file dialogs,
>> and menu bar interaction may no longer work correctly. I remember a
>> very old bug where Game Center just wouldn't work.
>>
>
> I'm well aware of that fact, but... who's suggesting doing that? Queueing
> up continuations on the event loop is a far better way of going about it.
>

The op's proposed code using NSApp nextEventMatchingMask is manually
pumping the event loop.