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Re: NSScroller and Periodic Events
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Re: NSScroller and Periodic Events

  • Subject: Re: NSScroller and Periodic Events
  • From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:44:05 -0800
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Abhinay Kartik Reddyreddy
<email@hidden> 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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