(Resending since I accidentally sent the first one from the wrong e-mail
address. Please reply to this one instead of the other to avoid re-posting my
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Thanks!)
On Jan 22, 2013, at 1:38 PM, Rick Aurbach <r...@aurbach.com> wrote:
> Thank you for the explanation. I only started learning Objective-C, Cocoa,
> iOS, etc in August, so I'm still pretty much a newbie and appreciate learning
> something new.
>
> In this particular case, the selector that is the argument to the
> performSelector: method is a callback selector for NSTimer and hence is known
> to return void. Therefore, using the #pragma to turn off this message is safe.
>
> Thanks for the insight.
I'd still use GCD instead. Not only do you not need a #pragma, but you also get
compile-time checking that will warn you if the method you're calling ever gets
changed or removed. Using @selector can be a huge pain when the selector it
refers to gets renamed or removed — the compiler doesn't check @selector at
all, so everything will seem fine until you start noticing exceptions and
crashes at runtime.
Plus, it's less code. Here's a timer in GCD:
int64_t delayInSeconds = 2;
dispatch_time_t popTime = dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, delayInSeconds *
NSEC_PER_SEC);
dispatch_after(popTime, dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^(void){
[foo doSomethingWith:bar];
});
And, the first three lines of that code is auto-completed for you as soon as
you start typing "dispatch_after" in Xcode, so the only thing you actually have
to write is the contents of the block of code that should run when the timer
fires (well, and changing the 2 to whatever time interval you're going for). No
passing around selectors, no packing extra info into the timer's userInfo, no
implementing a separate method to run when the timer fires. Simple and
straightforward.
Charles
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