Run NSRunLoop in a Cocoa command-line program

Question

Is it possible to initialize a NSRunLoop without loading any NIB files (i.e., without calling NSApplicationMain())?

Thanks.

Answer 1

In Swift, you can achieve this by appending the following line to the end of your main.swift:

NSRunLoop.currentRunLoop().run();  // Swift < 3.0
RunLoop.current.run();             // Swift >= 3.0

If you want to be able to stop the run loop you have to use the Core Foundation methods.

CFRunLoopRun(); // start

And you can stop it like this

CFRunLoopStop(CFRunLoopGetCurrent()); // stop