How to stop NSTimer

Question

Hey so i am just making an example application and i am having a little trouble, So i have a table view and then i have a few rows and when a user clicks a row it takes them

Answer 1

4 year old post, I know but maybe I can save the NEXT guy from wasting time trying invalidate a NSTimer. Apples documentation explains it and it works for me.

in .h

@property(nonatomic, retain) NSTimer *yourTimer;
@property(weak) NSTimer *repeatingTimer;

in .m

@synthesize yourTimer, repeatingTimer;

in viewDidLoad

yourTimer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:(NSTimerInterval)(40.0/60.0)
                                             target:self
                                           selector:@selector(blink)
                                           userInfo:nil
                                            repeats:TRUE];

  self.repeatingTimer = yourTimer;

in my viewDidDisappear

   [repeatingTimer invalidate];
   repeatingTimer = nil;

the trick is in the assignment of the first NSTimer to (weak) NStimer object and killing THAT object.