On Jul 4, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Dr. Scott Steinman wrote: > I have concluded that there are two options to do this: > > 1. Draw each display into two NSViews, then switch back and forth between > between them (via replaceSubview:with:) with an NSTimer to time the switches. > 2. Use Core Animation to fade in one display and fade in the other.
I would just use a single view that has a boolean state, like _drawBlackText, and use a repeating NSTimer to trigger a method that flips the variable and tells the view to redraw. > In each case, I don't know how to avoid blocking a button presses whose > action would stop the animation. Normally a timer will only run in NSDefaultRunloopMode, i.e. while the app is idle. But while a control is tracking mouse events, it runs a nested runloop in NSEventTrackingRunloopMode. If you want the timer to fire during the mouse-down, you’ll need to make it run in that mode as well; see the NSRunLoop API for details. —Jens_______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
