I am hoping someone can help me figure out the best way to handle
this, I am sure someone out there has some experience with this.
I have some code that sends a command to an external hardware device
and waits to get the response back with the info that was requested of
the device. Now what I want to do is animate on screen the graphic of
the device, showing that it is working. What I tried to do at first
was setup an NSTimer that would be called every 1 second say, then
call my method to call the device and wait for the device to respond.
But basically my call blocks the NSTimer because it takes some time
(actually what I am calling from my code is a command line tool that
we created that will return a result file to us). So what I want to
do is call my method to get the device info and while waiting for the
response animate this graphic of the device in operation. What is the
best way to do this?
1) Should I use an NSThread for this?
2) IS there some other Cocoa functionality that might help me here?
Thanks in advance for any help.
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