Listening for NSWorkspace Notifications in Swift 4 - swift

Question

The simple Swift 4 example below should stop when the computer's display goes to sleep.
class Observer {
var asleep = false
func addDNC () {
NSWorkspace.shared.notificationCenter.addObserver(forName: NSWorkspace.screensDidSleepNotification, object: nil, queue: nil, using: notificationRecieved)
}
func notificationRecieved (n: Notification) {
asleep = true
}
}
let observer = Observer ()
observer.addDNC ()
while (!observer.asleep) {}
print ("zzzz")
However, the program gets stuck in the while loop. What am I doing wrong, and what is the proper way to wait for a Notification?
I have tried using a selector (#selector (notificationRecieved), with #objc in the function declaration, of course), to no avail.

Answer 1

Start a template app in Xcode and modify the ViewController.swift to do this:
import Cocoa
class Observer {
var asleep = false
func addDNC () {
NSWorkspace.shared.notificationCenter.addObserver(forName: NSWorkspace.screensDidSleepNotification, object: nil, queue: nil, using: notificationRecieved)
}
func notificationRecieved (n: Notification) {
print("got sleep notification!")
asleep = true
}
}
class ViewController: NSViewController {
let observer = Observer ()
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// Do any additional setup after loading the view.
observer.addDNC ()
}
override var representedObject: Any? {
didSet {
// Update the view, if already loaded.
}
}
}
The difference between your code and mine is that I'm not doing the wacky sleepy polling thing you're doing (that's going to lead to a spinning pizza cursor), and I'm also setting observer to be a property off the ViewController object, so the observer property sticks around as long as the view controller does.