Can't you use a loop and then stuff the timers into an NSMutableArray or
NSMutableDictionary to access?



On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Tom Hohensee <tom.hohen...@gmail.com>wrote:

> For the life of me I cannot figure this one out.  I need to create an
> indeterminate amount of timers for an app I am working on.  The app is petty
> simple.  For example, provide a list of ip enabled devices with times to
> shut off and the app executes the device's shutdown at the specified time.
>  I need to retain a reference to each timer so that I can invalidate the
> timer if necessary.  Obviously setting up one timer or two timers is not a
> problem.
>
> NSTimer *myTimer1;
> NSTimer *myTimer2;
> etc.........
>
> However, I do not know wether the user will have 1 device or 100 devices.
>  Do I have to setup a finite amount of timers (ultimately having a limit on
> the number of devices that can be added) or is there a better way?  I have
> googled for a while now trying to find example code but have come up empty
> (plenty of finite examples).  I see there are timer applications out there
> that seem to handle an infinite number of timers.
>
> Thanks
> Tom_______________________________________________
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