On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Shawn Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also you should fire your timer every > 0.75 of seconds (or so) to ensure your UI update is consistent/smooth. > Firing every second may cause your timer to fire a little after 1 > second later so your UI could skip from say 50s to 52s.
I do not recommend this, as using 0.75s will guarantee a jittery update. Consider what happens when you start at 0 and round down to figure out what to display. You'll display 0, then 0 again. Then you'll display 1, at 1.5 seconds after start, then 2 and 3 each 0.75 seconds after the previous number. The cycle repeats with 4, which displays 1.5 seconds after 3. Firing once a second is usually just fine, so if you want to keep things simple, do that. To ensure against skipping, round to the nearest integer, which will ensure that you can be off by up to .5 seconds without skipping any numbers. Mike _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
