Hi, It doesn't work because you're (probably) blocking the main thread, which is responsible for drawing. What you want to do instead is scheduling a timer inside the main run loop. Look at the NSTimer class. Also, don't forget to force the view to be redrawn, by using the setNeedsDisplay: method. HTH Laurent On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:06 PM, azzzz@gmx.net <azzzz@gmx.net> wrote:
I have a label that I have set to blank, and after a user clicks 'go' I generate a random word or number and use:
self.label.stringValue = "some_word"
to update the view.
However, I would like to show 200 or so random words in quick succession before the final one is shown - just because it's too plain at the moment. Alternatively, I'd be happy with showing an animated graphic in its place - which is replaced by the final random word after a few seconds.
I've tried things like:
100.times do num = rand(40) self.label.stringValue = num sleep 1 end
But it doesn't work. I've also (after googling) tried .reloadData but to no avail as well.
Any ideas on how to achieve this? Or pointers on how to add animations to my window/views? _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel