[erlang-questions] cocoa bridge

[David Goehrig]

Is there any reason you can't swap order, have the Cocoa app spawn erlang in a new thread and treat the original process as a port?

I ask because this is what I ended up doing for SDLPerl, where both Cocoa and Perl were fighting over the mainthread. 

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On Oct 17, 2011, at 4:22 AM, Joel Reymont <joelr1@REDACTED> wrote:

> Cocoa requires the event loop to run in the firs app thread (thread #0).
> 
> Is there a way to force the Erlang VM to start a new thread for itself to free thread #0 for Cocoa?
> 
> Am I stuck with hacking the VM to do so?
> 
>    Thanks, Joel
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