Re: using performSelectorInBackground
Re: using performSelectorInBackground
- Subject: Re: using performSelectorInBackground
- From: "Rick C." <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:53:20 -0700 (PDT)
thank you very much i believe i got it working ok now.
rick
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From: Nick Zitzmann <email@hidden>
To: Rick C. <email@hidden>
Cc: email@hidden
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 12:59:22 AM
Subject: Re: using performSelectorInBackground
On Jun 16, 2009, at 10:53 AM, Rick C. wrote:
> + (NSTimer *)scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:(NSTimeInterval)seconds target:(id)target selector:(SEL)aSelectoruserInfo:(id)userInfo repeats:(BOOL)repeats
>
> however i need to use a separate thread for other reasons and i have now placed a call to my nstimer method from inside of my nsobject performSelectorInBackground selector and it no longer gets called. i'm just learning about multi-threading and the performSelectorInBackground method is simple and works for me except for the call to my nstimer method. i'm sure there's a reason why. any thoughts?
There is; +scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval: schedules the timer in the thread's run loop. If the thread never runs its run loop, then nothing happens. You probably want to schedule the timer in the main run loop instead.
Nick Zitzmann
<http://www.chronosnet.com/>
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