Hi all,

so my cocoa pong is going ok here. i've got a paddle that moves when i press up or down, the ball bounces off the walls ok. but i'm encountering some sticky animation questions that aren't easily answered. so here goes:

taking keyboard input, parsing it, and shooting off a message to my controller who in turn modifies data in my paddle model is great, easy to understand. but it bogs down my ball. i tried putting my ball animation within a thread, and it's better, but still a bit boggy. it just bogs through the animate method every 0.015 seconds and refreshes my view. it's ok, but when i move my paddle there's still (barely) noticeable lag.

so should i have two timers running, one that updates the ball, and one that updates the paddles? what's a good paradigm for this situation?

thanks in advance...