Waiting for a specified duration in Cocoa

Question

Is there a more straightforward way to wait for a specific amount of time in Cocoa than what I have come up with below?

- (void) buttonPressed {
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Answer 1

I'm not sure if it exists (yet), but with blocks in 10.6 (or PLBlocks in 10.5 and on the iPhone) it should be pretty easy to write a little wrapper like performBlock:afterDelay: that does exactly what you want without the need to sleep the entire thread. Would be a useful little piece of code indeed.

Mike Ash has written about an approach like this on his blog:

NSString *something = ...;
RunAfterDelay(0, ^{
    NSLog(@"%@", something);
    [self doWorkWithSomething: something];
});