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On May 25, 2008, at 10:45 AM, Steve Steinitz wrote:
Hello,
This is hard to google for because they are such common words:
how do I delay, wait, pause for a tenth of a second?
I don't want to use NSTimer because I just want to resume where I
left off. I don't want to be in a tight loop because I need the
system to finish something. I just want to pause execution for a
short time. I think there was a wait() in OS9. I found a wait() in
wait.h but it wants an int * and made me nervous.
Specifically, when I send a fetch message to an NSArrayController,
it sometimes takes a fraction of a second for its selection to
become valid. Currently I fire an NSTimer to call a 'part 2' method
to finish what I am doing (scrolling the selection into view), but
it lacks niceness.
Thanks,
Steve
Have to agree with Thomas that delay is the wrong way to handle this.
From 10.4 on fetch: results are delayed until the next iteration of
the run loop so (please correct me if I'm wrong) the simplest solution
would be to just manually iterate through the loop twice:
...
[arrayController fetch:nil];
[[NSRunLoop mainRunLoop] runUntilDate:[NSDate distantPast]]; //
finish current iteration
[[NSRunLoop mainRunLoop] runUntilDate:[NSDate distantPast]]; //
iterate one more time to allow selection to update
NSUInteger selection = [arrayController selectionIndex];
...
- Dmitri
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