Re: NSTimer problem

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Sunday, July 1, 2001, at 06:08 PM, Björn Gohla wrote:

> i am having a bit of trouble using the NSTimer. it seems that the timer 
> fires
> only if an event occurs after the specified interval has expired, like a
> movement of the mouse pointer or the depression of a key. having scanned
> through gnustep-base sources i suspect this has to do with the way 
> timers are
> hooked into the runloop. is this a known problem or am i totally wrong 
> about
> this.

I think/hope you are totally wrong.

Certainly, timers normally work fine - see nstimer.m in base/Testing for 
an example
of timers firing without other events in the runloop.

That's not to say that there can't be a bug of course, but if so, it's 
certainly
not a known one, and timers are working well in a lot of production code.

Most likely causes of problems are ...

1. forgetting to add a timer to the runloop
2. running the loop in a mode other than the one the timer was added for
3. not running the loop to which the timer was added