Question

My current solution to schedule the same selector on an object for n times is via creating an array of instances of a “messanger” class where as property I have calltime and type of the selector I want to call plus the object reference that should call the selector.

I then check against this array in the update method of the parent node class where I added all those objects.

Is there any way to do this via the schedule method?

The shared director doesn’t give me any method that helps. I am fairly happy with my solution but not quiet sure if it is the best one.

EDIT: I tried the answer suggested and unfortunately did not work.

Here is the code:

    [f schedule:@selector(activateForShort) interval:0 repeat:0 delay:1.0f];
    [f schedule:@selector(activateForShort) interval:0 repeat:0 delay:3.0f];
    [f schedule:@selector(activateForShort) interval:0 repeat:0 delay:5.0f];
    [f schedule:@selector(activateForShort) interval:0 repeat:0 delay:7.0f];
    [f schedule:@selector(activateForShort) interval:0 repeat:0 delay:9.0f];
    [f schedule:@selector(activateForShort) interval:0 repeat:0 delay:12.0f];
     ....
    [f schedule:@selector(activateForShort) interval:0 repeat:0 delay:152.0f];
    [f schedule:@selector(activateForShort) interval:0 repeat:0 delay:177.0f];
    [f schedule:@selector(activateForShort) interval:0 repeat:0 delay:199.0f];
    [f schedule:@selector(activateForShort) interval:0 repeat:0 delay:212.0f];

f is an object and it calls the selector “activateForShort” only once.

I tried modifying the interval and repeat value to 1 but did not work.

What I want to achieve is to call it at a specific time (e.g. 1.0f, 212.0f).

Any suggestion will be wellcome 🙂

Answer 1

The solution suggested sadly didn’t work. See edit.

I created a specific action class and created an NSMutableArray filled of instances of this class, and in the update method of the class wherever I needed those actions to be scheduled I do:

-(void ) update:(ccTime) delta
{
timeElapsed+=delta;

for(int i=lastButtonCallIndex; i<[callsSchedulers count]; i++ )
{
    Call * buttonCall = [callsSchedulers objectAtIndex:i];
    if (buttonCall.callingTime<timeElapsed)
    {
        if(buttonCall.called==FALSE)
        {
            [buttonCall call]; //Where the call method has a reference to the button object I wanted to activate - a Call object is initialized with this reference.
            lastButtonCallIndex++;
        }
    }
    else
    {
        break;
    }
}    

}