Hi Bob, (you are going to kick yourself) you have misplaced the colon between target and self - there is a comma there, and the colon has been placed in front of "target", so the method is not being recognised. eg: @synchro_timer = NSTimer.scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval(TIME_INTERVAL, target:self, selector:"synchronise_with_server:", userInfo:nil, repeats:true) as for threads - maybe someone else could chime in with a preference - but I do it the Cocoa way (eg http Connection delegates or timers) - but for data crunching using all cores I will use something like Laurent's barber shop code: http://www.macruby.org/blog/2009/10/07/macruby05b1.html . J On Oct 11, 2009, at 6:19 PM, Robert Rice wrote:
Congratulations MacRuby Development Team:
My application almost runs now in MacRuby.
Is NSTimer class supported in MacRuby?
I was doing background processing using NSTimer as follows:
@timer = NSTimer.scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval( 5.0, :target, self, :selector, :periodicUpdate, :userInfo, nil, :repeats, true )
but this now gives me the error:
undefined method `scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval' for NSTimer:Class (NoMethodError)
Do you have a preferred method for doing backgound tasks in MacRuby - perhaps separate threads?
Thanks, Bob Rice
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