Not if you've retained the timer - and if you haven't, then you shouldn't 
release it. Conversely if you *have*, you should release and nil it when it 
fires.

On Aug 3, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Charlie Dickman wrote:

> You must use the 2nd way. If you don't you could get a memory exception if 
> the timer has fired and, therefore, been invalidated.
> 
> On Aug 3, 2012, at 4:19 PM, Trygve Inda wrote:
> 
>> NSTimer* myTimer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:60 target:self
>> selector:@selector(wantsUpdate:) userInfo:nil repeats:NO]
>> 
>> Sometime after it fires (and occasionally before), I call
>> 
>> if ( myTimer )
>> {
>>  [myTimer invalidate];
>>  [myTimer release];
>>  myTimer = nil;
>> }
>> 
>> 
>> Should I really be doing:
>> 
>> if ( myTimer )
>> {
>>   if ([myTimer isValid])
>>        [myTimer invalidate];
>> 
>>  [myTimer release];
>>  myTimer = nil;
>> }
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I am doing it the first way without trouble... At least I think it is ok.
>> The docs say non-repeating timers are invalidated after they fire.
>> 
>> Which way is better?
>> 
>> Comments?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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