Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Creating selectors for NSTimer

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

On Wednesday, Apr 2, 2003, at 22:59 Europe/Amsterdam, Antonio Rodriguez 
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> trying to create a a selector argument for the creation of an NSTimer 
> from python code. Does anyone have the magic incantation required. I 
> figured that since PyObjC is so graceful, I could pass a string (ie, 
> 'self.doUpdate' for a method 'def doUpdate (self, sender):') but it 
> doesn't seem to work.
>
> Basically I'm trying to create an NSTimer to fire stuff off given that 
> threading doesn't work yet.

The names of your action methods should end in an underscore (e.g. 'def 
doUpdate_(self, sender):'). This is required due to the way this name 
is translated into an Objective-C method name, which in your cause 
would be -doUpdate:(id)sender.

Ronald