I have just made a new update on WorkTimer, which fixes a bug that prevented WorkTimer 2.03 from starting when there was no internet connection. The deal was that I in the previos update did a rather lazy check with no timeout. This caused Worktimer 2.03 to just stagnate when you network was down:

[NSDictionary dictionaryWithContentsOfURL: (NSURL *)internetURL];

The fix

It was easier then I tought, after just 2 min at the great Cocoabuilder.com a found this snipplet that creates a thread that do the internet checking by it self.

The main application thread is left untouched:

- (IBAction) checkVersion: (id) sender {

[NSThread detachNewThreadSelector: @selector(checkVersionInThread:)

toTarget: self withObject: sender];

}


	
- (void) checkVersionInThread: (id) sender {

NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];

	
NSDictionary *versionDict = [NSDictionary

dictionaryWithContentsOfURL: versionsURL];

if (versionDict != nil) {

// do stuff

} else {

NSLog(@“Unable to download version information.”);

}

	
[pool release];

[NSThread exit];

}