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Re: Measuring time between keypresses?

Subject: Re: Measuring time between keypresses?
From: Ken Thomases <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:33:49 -0500

On Mar 31, 2009, at 8:27 PM, Debajit Adhikary wrote:

I'm trying to write an app where I need to accept keypresses, and call
a function whenever the user has stopped typing (or when there is a
specified delay between keystrokes).

How do I measure the time between two keystrokes?

Measuring the time between keystrokes (or events of any other kind) is easy. Each keystroke generates an NSEvent and NSEvent has a - timestamp method.

The real problem is that you want to do something when there _hasn't_ been an event for a certain time period. For that, I recommend that you schedule an NSTimer, and keep pushing back its firing time each time you get a keystroke.

Cheers,
Ken

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