iPhone:Timer pause and resume?

Question

Hi,

My game application is having a timer(starting from 0:00 then increases) when it is is running. For that i use, NSTimer and then int hrVal = (timeCount/60)60; int minVal = ((timeCount/60)60)+9; etc code.

At some point of time, lets say user wins one level, i am showing a winning alert, at this point of time, i need to Pause the timer and resume again once user clicked OK button from this alert. Is it possible to do that and How?

I would appreciate if some one help me on this !

Thanks.

Answer 1

Instead of starting and stopping the timer you could set a BOOL pause = YES and then do nothing in the method that the timer fires while it is YES. When the pause ends set it back to NO.

Answer 2

You could invalidate the timer when a level is completed and create a new one for the next level.