Thanks all, as usual!

The wait for the table view to become valid can be very short, as short as 0.01 seconds, apparently. Unfortunately there's no simple way to be notified when a UIView becomes visible (anyone have a generic notification-y way of doing that?), and even then I don't know that just being visible for a table view is the same as it having valid rows/indices.

Also, to scroll to a specific row turns out to be very easy, once you have a table view with valid indexes displayed:

UITableViewScrollPositionMiddle = 2 tvobjc = self.tableview.objc_instance NSIndexPath = objc_util.ObjCClass("NSIndexPath") nsindex = NSIndexPath.indexPathForRow_inSection_(index,0) tvobjc.scrollToRowAtIndexPath_atScrollPosition_animated_(nsindex, UITableViewScrollPositionMiddle, True)

Works great, set that last parameter to False to scroll without animation.

...couldn't resist.
MiniPhotoView

Fair enough. But I think it's something to watch out while you are playing in your box of goodies. Is a great effect. Could be used in so many ways. I could make a poker machine in about 10mins with that sort of effect. I could also make ui.Views appear and disappear in a variety of ways with that functionality. But, I am sure you are right, doing it with ui.delay would not cut it.

Oh another benefit , I guess I get off the main thread.