On 12/4/08 9:41 PM, "Adam R. Maxwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 4, 2008, at 4:47 PM, Mahaboob wrote: > >> Hi, >> I need to fire the thread repeatedly in regular time intervals. So I >> used >> the timer like: >> timer = [[NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:(double) >> [txtTimeinterval >> doubleValue] target:self selector:@selector(myThread:) userInfo:nil >> repeats:YES]retain]; >> >> It is working but, the thread is fired only after the the time >> interval I >> had given. But actually I need to begin the thread in 0Sec and then >> keep the >> regular time interval. For that I used the code : >> NSDate* theDate = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceReferenceDate:0]; >> [[timer initWithFireDate:theDate interval:(double)[txtTimeinterval >> doubleValue] target:self selector:@selector(myThread:) userInfo:nil >> repeats:YES]retain]; >> >> But it is not firing the thread. >> Where I got wrong? > > at least the following: > > 1) you appear to be misusing the initializer; you should have timer = > [[NSTimer alloc] initWithFireDate...]; > > 2) you should be using theDate = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:0] > > 3) you haven't added the timer to a runloop, so it's never scheduled, > and will never fire > > Now I modified the code and attaching it. Now thread fires only once. After that it enter into runLoop and not going further. When I'm calling [self myThread:nil]; getting the warning: 'SendWindowClass' may not respond to '-send:' (Messages without a matching method signature will be assumed to return 'id' and accept '...' as arguments.) Without calling this the thread is not firing at all.
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