Help with ViewDidLoad..

[Cowlinn]

Hi

I am trying to run an action 10 seconds after the screen appears. At the moment I have this

- (void)viewDidLoad
{

[super viewDidLoad];

(sleep(5));

levelSix *modal = [[levelSix alloc] initWithNibName:nil bundle:nil];
[self presentModalViewController:modal animated:NO];


}

However this is being called before the view actually appears on the screen (At the end of the screen before)

I hope somebody could spare a minute or two to help me out.


Thanks a lot

[baja_yu]

Of course it does. That's why you have viewWillAppear and viewDidAppear

[Cowlinn]

Originally Posted by baja_yu

Of course it does. That's why you have viewWillAppear and viewDidAppear

I've tried both of these, and the same thing happened.

It's waiting 5 seconds BEFORE the screen loads on all;

ViewDidLoad
ViewDidAppear
and
ViewWillAppear

Any other ideas?

[baja_yu]

I just saw your code... sleep()? No, no, no. No. Use an NSTimer and in viewDidAppear method.

[Duncan C]

Originally Posted by Cowlinn

Hi

I am trying to run an action 10 seconds after the screen appears. At the moment I have this



However this is being called before the view actually appears on the screen (At the end of the screen before)

I hope somebody could spare a minute or two to help me out.


Thanks a lot

As Baja says, sleep is really bad news in Cocoa. It causes the whole app to freeze up.

use code like this:

- (void) showMyView;
{
//create and install the view that you want to show up after a delay
}

- (void) viewDidAppear
{
   [self performSelector: @selector(showMyView) 
     withObject: nil 
     afterDelay: 5.0];
}

The method peformSelector:withObject:afterDelay: sets up a method to be called after a delay. In this case, it will call a second method, showMyView. Move your code that creates and installs the view into that method.