Threads and voids

[tosibamaniac]

So here is the situation, I have a void that returns a bool and I MUST stop for 3 seconds before returning it and I can't sleep the main thread. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

[creyon]

Can you give more details please?

Also void that returns a bool sounds a bit weird.

[tosibamaniac]

Sorry for that my english is not that good .

- (BOOL)animatingNavBar { 
// [...]
// Need to stop for 3 s here.
return YES;
}

[creyon]

you could use

[self performSelector:<#(SEL)aSelector#> withObject:<#(id)anArgument#> afterDelay:<#(NSTimeInterval)delay#>];

you'll need to set up some new things:

- your animatingNavBar method will not be able to return anything now because of the delay thing. Instead it will call a new method after a 3s delay which will return a BOOL.

- Your new method can't return a bool just like that because the rest of the app doesn't know when it will be called (because of the delay) so it'll be better to post your bool result with a NSNotification or you can call it directly like this:

[self performSelector:@selector(methodThatUsesMyBool withObject:myBool afterDelay:3.0f];

[tosibamaniac]

Figured it out, thank you .