+int wxGUIEventLoop::DispatchTimeout(unsigned long timeout)
+{
+ NSApplication *cocoaApp = [NSApplication sharedApplication];
+ NSEvent *event = [cocoaApp
+ nextEventMatchingMask:NSAnyEventMask
+ untilDate:[[NSDate alloc] initWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:timeout/1000]
+ inMode:NSDefaultRunLoopMode
+ dequeue: YES];
+ if ( !event )
+ return -1;
+
+ [cocoaApp sendEvent: event];
+
+ return true;
+}
+
+bool wxGUIEventLoop::YieldFor(long eventsToProcess)
+{
+#if wxUSE_LOG
+ // disable log flushing from here because a call to wxYield() shouldn't
+ // normally result in message boxes popping up &c
+ wxLog::Suspend();
+#endif // wxUSE_LOG
+
+ m_isInsideYield = true;
+ m_eventsToProcessInsideYield = eventsToProcess;
+
+ // Run the event loop until it is out of events
+ while (1)
+ {
+ // TODO: implement event filtering using the eventsToProcess mask
+
+ wxAutoNSAutoreleasePool pool;
+ /* NOTE: It may be better to use something like
+ NSEventTrackingRunLoopMode since we don't necessarily want all
+ timers/sources/observers to run, only those which would
+ run while tracking events. However, it should be noted that
+ NSEventTrackingRunLoopMode is in the common set of modes
+ so it may not effectively make much of a difference.
+ */
+ NSEvent *event = [GetNSApplication()
+ nextEventMatchingMask:NSAnyEventMask
+ untilDate:[NSDate distantPast]
+ inMode:NSDefaultRunLoopMode
+ dequeue: YES];
+ if(!event)
+ break;
+ [GetNSApplication() sendEvent: event];
+ }
+
+ /*
+ Because we just told NSApplication to avoid blocking it will in turn
+ run the CFRunLoop with a timeout of 0 seconds. In that case, our
+ run loop observer on kCFRunLoopBeforeWaiting never fires because
+ no waiting occurs. Therefore, no idle events are sent.
+
+ Believe it or not, this is actually desirable because we do not want
+ to process idle from here. However, we do want to process pending
+ events because some user code expects to do work in a thread while
+ the main thread waits and then notify the main thread by posting
+ an event.
+ */
+ if (wxTheApp)
+ wxTheApp->ProcessPendingEvents();
+
+#if wxUSE_LOG
+ // let the logs be flashed again
+ wxLog::Resume();
+#endif // wxUSE_LOG
+
+ m_isInsideYield = false;
+
+ return true;
+}