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SOLVED: SOLVED Day 34 -- how can I make the alert wait for the animations to finish?

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title says it all. Right now, the alert is covering up the animations I've so carefully crafted. How can I get the alert to wait a second before showing?

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Hey Now seeks advice for delaying code execution:

how can I make the alert wait for the animations to finish?

This hint might be useful?
See -> Rooster's Delay function

Wait?! Is it pronouced "Hey Now?" or "Hal No?"

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@Bnerd  

How I would approach:

  • Use a timer
  • Timer starts when your criteria for the alert is met
  • When timer reaches the time duration of your animation you trigger you boolean alert value
  • Stop/reset timer
  • Alert pops up

:) I am sure there is a more sophisticated way, but this what I thought for now..

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@Obelix -- thanks for the help. I take it the answer is, "Answer non-trivial, ask again later when we get to concurrency."

Originally I was @haineux, which is the French word for "Heinous" ("horrible and evil") for silly reasons. "Haineux" is pronounced "Hey No" in French.

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@ioannisfa Not quite figuring it out. Here's my code:

import SwiftUI

struct ContentView: View {
    @State private var countries = ["Estonia", "France", "Germany", "Ireland", "Italy", "Nigeria", "Poland", "Russia", "Spain", "UK", "US"].shuffled()
    @State private var correctAnswer = Int.random(in: 0...2)
    @State private var showingScore = false
    @State private var scoreTitle = ""
    @State private var attempts = 0
    @State private var correct = 0
    @State private var selectedFlag = -1
    @State private var hasTimeElapsed = false

    var body: some View {
        ZStack {
            LinearGradient(gradient: Gradient(colors: [.blue, .gray]), startPoint: .top, endPoint: .bottom)
                .ignoresSafeArea()

            VStack(spacing: 30) {
                VStack {
                    Text("Tap the flag of")
                        .foregroundColor(.white)
                        .font(.subheadline.weight(.heavy))

                    Text(countries[correctAnswer])
                        .foregroundColor(.white)
                        .font(.largeTitle.weight(.semibold))

                }

                ForEach(0..<3) { number in
                    Button {
                        flagTapped(number)
                    } label: {
                        Image(countries[number])
                        }
                        .clipShape(RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 20))
                        .shadow(radius: 10, x:5, y:5)
                        .rotation3DEffect(.degrees(selectedFlag == number ? 360 : 0), axis: (x: 0, y: 1, z: 0))
                        .opacity(((selectedFlag == number) || (selectedFlag == -1))  ? 1 : 0.3)
                        .scaleEffect((selectedFlag == -1)  ? 1 : ((selectedFlag == number) ? 1.25 : 0.5))
                        .animation(.default, value: selectedFlag)
            }
        }
            .alert(scoreTitle, isPresented:$showingScore) {
                Button("Continue", action: askQuestion)
            } message: {
            Text("Your score is \(correct) out of \(attempts)")
            }
        }
    }

    func askQuestion() {
        countries.shuffle()
        correctAnswer = Int.random(in: 0...2)
        selectedFlag = -1
        hasTimeElapsed = false
 }

    func flagTapped(_ number: Int) {
        selectedFlag = number
        attempts += 1
        if number == correctAnswer {
            scoreTitle = "Correct"
            correct += 1
        } else {
            scoreTitle = "Wrong"
        }
        showingScore = true
    }

    private func delay() async {
        // Delay of 1 seconds (1 second = 1_000_000_000 nanoseconds)
        try? await Task.sleep(nanoseconds: 1_000_000_000)
        hasTimeElapsed = true
    }
}

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I like Rooster's delay function. When I did this challenge I used google to get the answer I used.

DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 1.0) {
        showingScore = true}

I don't know if it's the right way or best practice, but it worked for me.

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@WileECodee I like your solution a lot. I come from AppKit, so it's obvious in retrospect, ughhhhhh.

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Late to the show, but I wanted to do the same thing, and I ended up using the following code to make it work.

Update flagTapped(_ number: Int) method by replacing showingScore = true with

Task {
    try? await Task.sleep(nanoseconds: 1_000_000_000)
    await MainActor.run {
        showingScore = true
    }
}

I actually learned this today from the following article: Main Actor

Task will allow us to run the code in the background, sleep for x amount of seconds, then MainActor will ensure the next code runs on the UI thread.

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@daffyduck Thank you very many of this code snippet. I tried to found this kind of easy solution for delaying Alert. Have to check also that Main Actor infopage.

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