[gralem]

I'm sure this is simple enough, I have a media file that I'm playing in a cocoa application. I can use the NSSlider to position the media file. I can update the slider from the position of the playing media file, but only when I do certain actions in the interface.

But I want the slider to automatically update while the media plays. What is the best way to do this? I was looking for some delegate I can use. I put [self updatePlayer] in applicationWillUpdate, but that only refreshes when something happens (basically hits ANY action in the application). Is the answer to use an NSTimer?

---gralem

[Rickster]

Yes, a repeating timer would do nicely.

Depending on the mechanism you're using to play the media, it might have a time-based callback you can register for. Then you could redraw every time a sample is processed, or a timecode interval is hit, or at various other interesting times.