That's a bad idea. 
Use viewWillDraw for this approach

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> On Feb 5, 2016, at 9:26 AM, Graham Cox <graham....@bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 5 Feb 2016, at 10:52 AM, Jeff Evans <jev...@ars-nova.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Clark, it's a music app; a piece is composed and placed on the screen; 
>> there's a lot of massaging going on as the music adjusts visually. I want 
>> the play of the example to begin once there are no more updates remaining. 
>> That is no noticeable delay in terms of human time, but makes a difference 
>> in the appearance.
>> 
>> So I figure: the system presumably knows if it is about to send more redraw 
>> requests to that view. Is there any way I could know what it knows?
> 
> 
> Personally, I think you are abusing the view here - it should obediently 
> display what it’s told, not be part of your underlying logic.
> 
> However, there’s an easy-ish way to do what you want, if a little hacky.
> 
> 
> - (void)    drawRect:(NSRect) dirty
> {
>    [NSObject cancelPreviousPerformRequestsWithTarget:self 
> selector:@selector(doStuffWhenIdle) object:nil];
> 
>    /* do whatever you need to draw the view */
> 
>    [self performSelector:@selector(doStuffWhenIdle) withObject:nil 
> afterDelay:MY_IDLE_TIME];
> }
> 
> 
> - (void) doStuffWhenIdle
> {
>    // will be called once there are no more -drawRect calls and MY_IDLE_TIME 
> has elapsed
> 
> 
>    ….
> }
> 
> 
> 
> ―Graham
> 
> 
> 
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