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user3817163
user3817163

Reputation: 9

unrecognized selector sent to instance

So I'm looking around stack overflow, I see a lot of these unrecognized selector sent to instance error messages. Some ARC related, most non ARC related. What I essentially I am doing is calling a NSTimer to call a method every 6 seconds to change the file path of the array for a photo. (An automated banner if you will.) When 6 seconds has passed, I get this error message: 

2014-07-10 11:04:35.152 ysysy[435:57924] -[TableViewController animateFunction]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x156989f0
2014-07-10 11:04:35.154 ysysy[435:57924] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[TableViewController animateFunction]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x156989f0'

I call a setBannerTimer method inside of the viewWllAppearMethod: 

[self performSelectorOnMainThread:@selector(setBannerTimer) withObject:nil waitUntilDone:NO];

setBannerTimer then triggers a string method called animate function every 6 seconds: 

- (void) setBannerTimer {


    self->bannerTimer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:6 target:self selector:@selector(animateFunction) userInfo:nil repeats:YES];
    }

Animatie function:

 +(NSString *)animateFunction

return photoPath;
}

Hopefully I laid my problem out for everyone to easily understand. I must be doing something syntactically wrong with my method right? I am so close! Thanks ahead of time!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 813

Answers (1)

Jerome Diaz
Jerome Diaz

Reputation: 1866

It's not about ARC, scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:target:selector:userInfo:repeats should have an instance method selector, not a class method one;

=> Call a 

- (NSString *)animateFunction

instead of a

+ (NSString *)animateFunction

Upvotes: 2

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