On 25/11/2009, at 8:37 AM, Kevin wrote: > I needed to implement an inactivity timer in my Cocoa App and did so my > subclassing NSApplication and overriding sendEvent: to start and stop a > timer. Although it works most of the time, every once in a while my timer > gets fired as I'm typing text into a text field or interacting with some > other control like scrolling a table view.
You might want to look at Uli Kusterer's UKIdleTimer, which is a Cocoa wrapper around the Carbon EventLoopIdleTimer, which is a system-provided timer that only fires when the machine has been idle for a specified amount of time: http://www.zathras.de/angelweb/sourcecode.htm#UKIdleTimer -- Rob Keniger _______________________________________________ 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
