Re: NSTimer question...

FROM : Nathan Day
DATE : Wed Apr 13 06:15:52 2005

Is your program set to back ground only (no menu bar or Dock icon), if that is the case then there are some issues with NSTimers in this situation. I think they will only fire when you application recieves and event.

On Wednesday, April 13, 2005, at 12:58PM, John Draper <<email_removed>> wrote:

>I have a method like this...  in my main Controller...
>
>- (void)noAnswerIn:(NSTimeInterval)seconds
>{
>    // Create a new timer with the new refreshtime.
>    if (noAnswerTimeout == nil) {
>        NSLog(@"Starting no-answer timer");
>        noAnswerTimeout = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:seconds
>                                            target:self
>                                            selector:@selector(noAnswer:)
>                                            userInfo: nil
>                                            repeats:NO];
>    }
>}
>- (void)noAnswer:(id)sender
>{
>    NSLog(@"I never get here");
> 
>    // I do my stuff here if after a period of "seconds" above expires.
>
>    // of course we have to do this to ditch our timer when done.
>    [noAnswerTimeout invalidate];    // Ditch the timer - no longer needed.
>    noAnswerTimeout = nil;            // Loose reference to it.
>
>}
>
>I never get to the noAnswer callback.  What am I missing?
>What things can I do to check into why this isn't working?
>
>John
> 
>
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