Cocoa - Timer object that can be started, suspended, resumed?

Question

I'm looking for a repeating timer object that allows me to create it once and then suspend and resume it as needed for the lifetime of my application.

I've seen documentation for NSTimer and although I think I can make it do what I want by building an abstraction on top of it that creates/invalidates timer objects multiple times, I was curios if there is a better way using some other system timer implementation. I'm not too familiar with Mac development and couldn't find any other leads besides NSTimer.

Answer 1

Although NSTimer has no "suspend" method, [timer setFireDate:[NSDate distantFuture]] has that effect. To resume, use [timer setFireDate:[NSDate date]], or similar.