On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Abhinay Kartik Reddyreddy
<karthikredd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In case i should not use periodic events, how is an idle time task handled in 
> cocoa...?? In carbon i would say WaitNextEvent and if the return was null i 
> would perform my idle time task..... Is there any design pattern for idle 
> time tasks....??

The typical answer is "don't use them." Use a background thread or a
runloop source instead.

--Kyle Sluder
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