Ken:

Note to self, don't go writing to support boards when I am already half
asleep. ;)  I realize that now, and I understand what instance variables
are, just I couldn't think of the name when I was writing my original post.
And in my instance variable programming, I forgot that you have to run this
no matter if it is an instance variable or not:

globalVariable = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];


On 3/31/09 7:19 PM, "Ken Thomases" <k...@codeweavers.com> wrote:

> On Mar 31, 2009, at 9:12 PM, Pierce Freeman wrote:
> 
>> Whoops, sorry I didn't put that in...
>> 
>> @interface Example_Class : NSObject {
>> 
>>    IBOutlet NSTableView *tableView;
>>    NSMutableArray *globalVariable;
>> }
> 
> That's not a global variable.  It's an instance variable.  That's a
> massive conceptual error, and you should do your best to understand
> why you made it before going much further.  Perhaps reading Apple's
> guide to Object-Oriented Programming with Objective-C would help:
> 
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/OOP_ObjC/index.html
> 
> Next, what you showed is the declaration of the variable.  The
> variable is a pointer, which may point to an object.  Declaring a
> pointer does not allocate or initialize the object, nor make the
> pointer point to the object (or anything in particular).  You have to
> do that separately.
> 
> Regards,
> Ken
> 


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