On Sep 10, 2008, at 4:19 AM, Wesley Smith wrote:
I'm trying to figure out how I can have my app run a timer that never suspends when the user interacts with menus and the like.
You can use -[NSRunLoop addTimer:forMode:] to schedule the timer on additional run-loop modes. You might want to use NSEventTrackingRunLoopMode, for example.
Whether this is a good idea or not is another question. Remember, no matter what mode(s) a timer is scheduled in, there's no guarantee that it will fire at any given rate. At any given moment, the application may not be idle in its event loop -- it might be doing processing or handling some other event. Also, depending on what you're doing in response to the timer firing, it might not be appropriate during menu tracking, etc. So, depending on what you're trying to achieve, you may be asking the wrong question.
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