Re: NSTimer

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Sunday, June 16, 2002, at 10:12 PM, Andy Ruder wrote:

> Shouldn't NSTimer retain its instance variables such as _target and 
> _info?  It
> seems odd that it wouldn't.  For example, just to use the userInfo of a
> NSTimer, you would have to retain the dictionary before initializing 
> the timer,
> and then make sure the info is released once again after the timer is
> deallocated.  Seems a bit strange.  Anyways, the patch attached should 
> fix this
> bug if you should choose that it is a bug.

Thanks for the report.
I didn't apply your patch, but checked the behavior on MacOS-X and made 
GNUstep
behave the same way.

The target and user info are now retained, and they are released when 
the timer
is invalidated rather than deallocated.  Deallocation automatically 
causes
invalidation of the timer.