Quoting Jiva DeVoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> So I'm sorta hacking on WildMenus this weekend, and have implemented
> a primitive clock in the menubar... I'm wondering what's the best way
> to get my clock to redraw once a minute? Obviously the menu code
> itself gets linked into each application, so having 20 applications
> all launching their own little background timers to update the
> menubar clock sounds kinda cruddy. What would be the best way to do
> this? I imagine some kind of NSNotification but that also seems cruddy.
>
> (ps: For those who want said functionality - I have been sending
> patches to Michael Hanni, the WildMenus maintainer, so look for a
> release from him eventually.)
>
> --
> Jiva DeVoe
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>
>
This in fact isn't such a big problem. But to get the max efficiency out of it
do it like this:
// if we're not the currently displayed app this method immediately returns
- (void) invokedOnceAMinute
{
if ([NSApp isActive])
{
[self updateClockDisplay];
}
}
// update the clock's display in case it hasn't been updated in the mean time
- (void) appDidBecomeActive
{
[self updateClockDisplay];
}
Regards
--
Saso
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