Programming Cocoa to pause between actions

[zootbobbalu]

How can you program Cocoa to pause between actions? I wan't to make something move across the screen slow, but I don't know how to make Cocoa pause between redraws.

Any ideas?

 

[DrBozze]

How about <code>NSThread sleepUntilDate:</code> in Foundation? That would probably be a good place to start.

 

[blb]

There are also two Unix-level calls you can use: sleep (sleep for a number of seconds) and usleep (sleep for a number of microseconds); do a man 3 sleep or man usleep for info.

 

[DrBozze]

Timers. Don't forget about timers. Check out <code>NSTimer</code> for info on using timers in Cocoa.