[MacRuby-devel] NSTimer

[John Shea]

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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