The right solution is, as Fritz mentioned, to design your code to work
asynchronously. But for a quick-and-dirty solution to force a text field (or
any other UI) to show a change straight away is to include the redraw directly
yourself. This should not be done from a thread other than main howev
On 12 Nov 2014, at 2:58 AM, sqwarqDev wrote:
> Thanks for this Fritz. I think I get it. I need to get a clearer idea of how
> the run loop works. This isn't the first time I've been confused about why a
> line doesn't appear to return the result I expect before the next line
> executes. I supp
> On 11 Nov 2014, at 23:01, Fritz Anderson wrote:
> -needsDisplay schedules a view’s -drawRect: for the next pass through the
> runloop. You’re putting your process to sleep at the OS level, so the runloop
> is suspended along with everything else.
>
> What you posted is evidently a minimal ca
On 11 Nov 2014, at 4:15 AM, sqwarqDev wrote:
> I have an NSTextView, whose string I want to update while I wait for another
> method to complete. Since this method is going to take around 10-30 seconds,
> I'm displaying a spinner progress indicator.
>
> However, I want the text field to updat
Using Xcode Version 6.1 (6A1052d) on the latest developer build of Yosemite.
I'm confused as to whether this is a bug, or if I'm just doing something wrong.
I have an NSTextView, whose string I want to update while I wait for another
method to complete. Since this method is going to take aroun
