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I have a NSToolbarItem that I need to disable immediately when a particular condition occurs (it’s a stop button depending on whether a thread in my app is active). How could I do this? The docs say not to call NSToolbar’s validateVisibleItems directly but if I let it alone the stop button stays active for a few seconds after my thread has exited.

Nevermind… I fixed this. Stupid mistake. In short, I was using ThreadWorker and my thread wasn’t exiting because I was doing something like this:

while (eachItem = [itemEnumerator nextObject])
  {
    if ( ![worker cancelled])
        {
         // doing stuff here
        }
   }

So the loop would never finish until the enumerator was exhausted. Removing the if (![worker cancelled]) and adding a && ![worker cancelled] clause to the while condition was the solution.

Sometimes it’s the simplest things…