Re: Modal event processing
Re: Modal event processing
- Subject: Re: Modal event processing
- From: Uli Kusterer <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:24:53 +0200
On 05.07.2012, at 21:57, Charlie Dickman wrote:
> I have a demonstration app that is basically operating on a 0.15 second timer loop. The problem I am having is that even with a periodic timer going off it is very difficult to get menu events and mouse clicks in window controls through to be processed. I have tried setting up an additional flow of events using
> (NSEvent) + (void)startPeriodicEventsAfterDelay:(NSTimeInterval)delaySecondswithPeriod:(NSTimeInterval)periodSeconds
>
> as well as
>
> [[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] runUntilDate: [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow: t != 0. ? t * 1.01 : .01]]
>
> (where t can be set arbitrarily but is typically called with a value of 0.15) but none of this improves response. Is there anything else to try?
It's not how long you give time to the event loop, it is how often. Also, startPeriodicEventsAfterDelay: is intended for mouse tracking, not for general-purpose timers. You're being very vague and fuzzy with your terminology, so I hope you don't mind if I just spell out how I'd do a periodic task, and then you can tell whether that's what you're doing and when you're doing it differently:
-> Use an NSTimer to get your periodic processing time, not other calls.
-> Let the rest of the app run normally
-> Do the minimum amount of work needed in your timer. Timers run on your main thread & run loop, so you have to do short bits of work so the OS can "come up for breath" often enough. E.g. do your pre-loop setup, then put the loop body in the timer (using instance variables for the counter & other stuff you need to keep around between iterations), and then do 1 iteration per timer fire.
-> Don't use blocking calls (like network access) on the main run loop, use calls that do their work on another thread and then call you back when they're done (e.g. NSURLConnection, not NSURL -initWithContentsOfURL:).
Or, if you can run your stuff on a secondary thread, queue up your little bits of work in an NSOperationQueue or other GCD-backed queue that runs on another thread.
Cheers,
-- Uli Kusterer
"The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere..."
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