I'm trying to convert from Carbon to Cocoa for a number of reasons
which I won't go into here.
My application needs to set a timer that causes a function to be
called at a time in the future. This is non-repeating, and sometimes
has be immediate. I need it to be as efficient as possible,
I have my problem largely resolved, and I thought I'd share the
resolution.
Some have written pointing out that the following code has a bug:
timer = [NSTimer alloc];
[timer initWithFireDate:[NSDate date] interval:t target:self
selector:@selector(mainLoopTimer:) userInfo:hal
I need an asynchronous alert panel. My impression is that apple
doesn't consider this an alert if it's aynchronous.
A couple ideas occur to me for how to solve this:
1) Put the alert in a separate thread. But these seems to be a lot of
effort to get around a purposeful design, and thus far
