Question

How to increment currentindex so that textview can be updated in a sequence manner than randomly.

- (void)viewDidLoad{
myArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc]initWithObjects:@"String1",@"String2",@"String3",@"String4", @"String5",..... nil];  

[NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:2.0
                                 target:self
                               selector:@selector(updateText:)
                               userInfo:nil
                                repeats:NO];

self.textView.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Baskerville-Bold" size:22];

self.textView.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentCenter;

self.textView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];

self.textView.textAlignment =  NSTextAlignmentCenter;
self.textView.text = @"String1";
self.textView.scrollEnabled = NO;

self.textView.editable = NO;

self.textView.userInteractionEnabled = NO;

[baseView addSubview: self.textView];

} 

- (void)updateText:(NSTimer *)theTimer {
int index = arc4random() % [myArray count];
myTextView.text = [myArray objectAtIndex:index];

}

Answer 1

Instead of making index a local variable, make it a property

@property (nonatomic) NSInteger index;

in viewDidLoad initialize it to 0;

Then use it like this only:

           - (void)updateText:(NSTimer *)theTimer 
        {
            NSLog(@"myArray count is %d",[myArray count]);
            CFShow((__bridge CFTypeRef)(myArray));

            if (index < [myArray count])
            {
                NSLog(@"%d value is %@",index,[myArray objectAtIndex:index]);
                myTextView.text = [myArray objectAtIndex:index];
                index++;
            }
            else
                index = 0;
            }
    }

and i hope you are using Timer like this :

self.timer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:1.0 target:self selector:@selector(yourFunctionToUpdateTimer) userInfo:nil repeats:NO];