NSTimer never fires

Question

I've been having problems getting an NSTimer to fire, and I assumed it had to with multi-threading issues. Just to be sure I was creating the timer correctly, I created the following test code and I placed it into my main view controller's initWithNibName. Much to my surprise, it also failed to fire there.

NSInvocation *invocation = [NSInvocation invocationWithMethodSignature:[self methodSignatureForSelector:@selector(timerTest:paramTwo:paramThree:)]];
NSString *a = @"a";
NSString *b = @"b";
NSString *c = @"c";
[invocation setArgument:&a atIndex:2]; //indices 0 and 1 are target and selector respectively, so params start with 2
[invocation setArgument:&b atIndex:3];
[invocation setArgument:&c atIndex:4];
[[NSRunLoop mainRunLoop] addTimer:[NSTimer timerWithTimeInterval:5 invocation:invocation repeats:NO] forMode:NSDefaultRunLoopMode];

Any clues as to what is wrong with this code? It seems to do exactly what the documentation specifies for using an NSInvocation with an NSTimer.

Answer 1

NSInvocations also have to have a target and a selector in addition to a method signature and arguments:

NSInvocation *invocation = [NSInvocation invocationWithMethodSignature:[self methodSignatureForSelector:@selector(timerTest:paramTwo:paramThree:)]];
NSString *a = @"a";
NSString *b = @"b";
NSString *c = @"c";
[invocation setArgument:&a atIndex:2]; //indices 0 and 1 are target and selector respectively, so params start with 2
[invocation setArgument:&b atIndex:3];
[invocation setArgument:&c atIndex:4];
[invocation setTarget:self];
[invocation setSelector:@selector(timerTest:paramTwo:paramThree:)];
[[NSRunLoop mainRunLoop] addTimer:[NSTimer timerWithTimeInterval:1 invocation:invocation repeats:NO] forMode:NSDefaultRunLoopMode];