Re: NSTimer question...

FROM : Mirna Pena
DATE : Mon Apr 25 20:59:22 2005

Assuming that your called went through the
scheduleTimerWithTimeInterval call, you might be having problems with
being on a separate thread?  The timer should wants to run on the main
thread.

hope that helps,
Mirna

On Apr 12, 2005, at 7:57 PM, John Draper 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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