Thanks! You are right, I have tested it on Snow Leopard, and the CA animation runs simultaneously with the blocking NSAnimation, as claimed in the Wikipedia. What a revelation! I'd say, what an ANNOYING revelation! It means that this ability of CA animation of running in a separate thread is rendered useless by this bug. I cannot rely on this ability until a sufficient number of users upgrades to Snow Leopard, and the long tail of this process will never end, so it's practically never.
Or is there a workaround, beside using non-blocking animation, which is often too tedious and sometimes not smooth enough? On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Shlok Datye <li...@codingturtle.com> wrote: > Take a look at this movie, which was taken on Leopard: > http://shlok.s3.amazonaws.com/20090927-ca-problem.mov > The blue rectangle is a layer-backed NSView that is animated using Core > Animation. The problem is that the animation halts while the main loop waits > for the mouse to get released. > For your information, this was a bug that has been fixed in Snow Leopard. > I'm therefore curious: Have you tried running a blocking NSAnimation along > with a CA-animation in Snow Leopard? > Shlok Datye > Coding Turtle > http://codingturtle.com > > Hi, > > Today I read this in wikipedia: > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Animation) > > "Animated sequences execute in a thread independent from the main run > loop, allowing application processing to occur while the animation is > in progress." > > However, in my experience, Core Animation animations do not run while > the main thread is blocked. For example, when the main thread is > running a usual blocking NSAnimation, the CA-animation is frozen and > resumed only when the NSAnimation ends. > > Could someone clarify on this, please? > > > _______________________________________________ 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 arch...@mail-archive.com
