Stop dispatch_after

Question

I use an animation for specify a tip to help the interaction with delay using these:

 let delay = 1.8 * Double(NSEC_PER_SEC)
    let time = dispatch_time(DIS         


        

Answer 1

Here's a general solution I wrote to cancel a dispatch_after in Swift:

typealias cancellable_closure = (() -> ())?

func dispatch_after(#seconds:Double, queue: dispatch_queue_t = dispatch_get_main_queue(), closure:()->()) -> cancellable_closure {
    var cancelled = false
    let cancel_closure: cancellable_closure = {
        cancelled = true
    }

    dispatch_after(
        dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, Int64(seconds * Double(NSEC_PER_SEC))), queue, {
            if !cancelled {
                closure()
            }
        }
    )

    return cancel_closure
}

func cancel_dispatch_after(cancel_closure: cancellable_closure) {
    cancel_closure?()
}

Usage:

let doSomethingLater = dispatch_after(seconds: 3.0) {
    something()
}
....
if shouldCancelForSomeReason {
    cancel_dispatch_after(doSomethingLater)
}

By default it runs on the main queue, but you can pass in a parameter for it to run on another queue:

let doSomethingLater = dispatch_after(seconds: 3.0, queue: dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_HIGH, 0)) {
    something()
}