Hey Roland: Yeah, thanks to yourself and others I finally remembered that you have to "make" the variable somewhere. ;) And I know what a instance variable is, it's just that I couldn't think of the term when writing my original post.
On 3/31/09 7:20 PM, "Roland King" <r...@rols.org> wrote: > well no that's just the declaration of the NSMutableArray pointer, you > have to actually make it somewhere, in the initializer of your > Example_Class (and release it somewhere too) > > And that variable isn't global, it's a class instance variable. > > You might want to go back to the Objective-C 2.0 Programming Language > chapter about classes and initialization, that whole document is very > good and may help you sort out some ideas. > > Pierce Freeman wrote: >> Whoops, sorry I didn't put that in... >> >> @interface Example_Class : NSObject { >> >> IBOutlet NSTableView *tableView; >> NSMutableArray *globalVariable; >> } >> >> >> On 3/31/09 7:09 PM, "I. Savant" <idiotsavant2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>> We *can't* assume anything. You left out the most relevant part of >>> your code: how are you creating "globalVariable"? >>> >>> -- >>> I.S. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mar 31, 2009, at 10:05 PM, Pierce Freeman wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hi everyone: >>>> >>>> I am having a strange problem with NSMutableArray which is that it >>>> doesn't >>>> seem to work with addObjectsFromArray. I try setting this for a >>>> "global >>>> variable" (forget what they are called in Cocoa) and it just >>>> returned null. >>>> Here is my code (assuming that global Variable is the global >>>> variable which >>>> is a NSMutable Array): >>>> >>>> NSArray *testing = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"testing", @"testing", >>>> nil]; >>>> [globalVariable addObjectsFromArray:testing]; >>>> >>>> Thanks for any help. >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> >>>> Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) >>>> >>>> Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. >>>> Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com >>>> >>>> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >>>> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/idiotsavant2005%40gmail.co>>>> m >>>> >>>> This email sent to idiotsavant2...@gmail.com >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) >> >> Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. >> Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com >> >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/rols%40rols.org >> >> This email sent to r...@rols.org _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com