Re: Blocking loops

FROM : Bill Bumgarner
DATE : Fri Jun 16 18:05:09 2006

On Jun 16, 2006, at 7:34 AM, Andreas Känner wrote:
> Maybe that's not the best approach but the equivalent to DoEvents() 
> is this:
>
> [NSApp nextEventMatchingMask:NSAnyEventMask untilDate:[NSDate 
> distantFuture] inMode:NSDefaultRunLoopMode dequeue:NO];


Don't do that.  Or, at least, don't do that and expect anything like 
normal event processing or responsiveness to happen in your app.

From the documentation:
   Returns the next event matching a given mask, or nil if no such 
event is found before a specified expiration date.

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/
ApplicationKit/Classes/NSApplication_Class/Reference/Reference.html