Awesome - thanks *Rolf*.


On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Rolf Bjarne Kvinge <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There are likely more efficient ways to this.
>
> One way would be to have a [ThreadStatic] variable which you set to true
> in your Main method. That way it'll only be true for the main thread.
>
> The only way to really tell what is faster though is to actually measure
> the difference (and do you actually know that this code is called a lot in
> your app? If not, it won't be a problem. Have in mind that anything
> UI-related will likely drown this piece of code completely).
>
> Best regards,
> Rolf
>
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Phil Cockfield <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> I've got some same code which is designed to make sure an Action is
>> invoked on the UI thread.
>> Here it is here:
>>
>> https://gist.github.com/3284433
>>
>> It uses this to determine if it's running on the UI thread.  Is code the
>> most efficient way to do this?  It seems a bit baroque to be marshalling
>> out over a *bool_objc_msgSend *type method.
>>
>>
>>       private static bool IsMainThread()
>>
>>     {
>>
>>       return Messaging.bool_objc_msgSend(GetClassHandle("NSThread"), 
>> newSelector(
>> "isMainThread").Handle);
>>
>>     }
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --
>> *Phil *Cockfield
>>
>>
>>
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