Make it a property so that it doesn't go away, but exists for the whole class.
Check out how to define a property. There are lots of examples around. On Apr 19, 2012, at 1:43 PM, The Rhythmic wrote: > Am sorry to ask such a trivial question. Am a newbie to Objective-C, & > simply cannot see how to get this working, after having tried several > possible ways & google'd around for it. Please help! > My question is simple. I have a class-level NSDate object, which is > declared outside any method in the class as: > > * NSDate *fromDate;* > > Now, within a method, am setting this value to the date from a DatePicker > as: > > * fromDate = [datePicker date];* > > Soon after the above assignment, I print its value into the log & it works > fine. > > * NSLog(@"From Date: %@", fromDate);* > > Now, when I use NSDate's value in another/different method, the value's > gone! Why is it not persisted across methods in the same class itself? What > can I do for the value to be accessible across methods? > _______________________________________________ > > 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: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/zav%40mac.com > > This email sent to z...@mac.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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
