On Apr 21, 2015, at 3:43 PM, Michael Crawford wrote:

> It's not stopping in the debugger anymore, but instead of getting my
> navigation controller I'm just getting a black screen.
> 

And this points to your first view controller being the problem. 

It appears that you now have a nav controller that loads an empty view 
controller - or nothing at all.

> I think all these problems arose by starting with an app that did not
> use a nav controller, then - incorrectly - refactoring it so it did
> use one.  It looks like I left some stale configuration in there.
> When I tried to fix that, that's when I started getting the crashes.
> 
> Now I'm backing up, trying to recreate the navigation controller at
> the beginning.
> Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer
> mdcrawf...@gmail.com
> http://www.warplife.com/mdc/
> 
>   Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan
> Area.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Mike Abdullah <mabdul...@karelia.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 21 Apr 2015, at 19:13, Michael Crawford <mdcrawf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> OK I'll set up a git repository, but I'd like to fix this first.
>>> 
>>> I think my MainWindow.xib got misconfigured or corrupted, so I made a new 
>>> one.
>>> 
>>> I have a UINavigationController with a custom class inside it called
>>> LifeIPhoneViewController.  Inside the latter is a LifeView as well as
>>> some controls - to start and stop the animation etc.
>>> 
>>> If I don't assign a root view controller to the initial window I get a
>>> blank white screen as well as an NSLog that informs me that a root
>>> view controller is expected by the end of startup.
>>> 
>>> If I assign either the UINavigationController or the
>>> LifeIPhoneViewController to be the window's root view controller I get
>>> a crash.
>>> 
>>> I'm going to try replacing the LifeIPhoneViewController with a plain
>>> vanilla UIViewController that doesn't do anything.
>>> 
>>> My .xibs are a mess because they evolved organically.  What I'd like
>>> to get out of this is not so much a running application as a neatly
>>> designed and implemented one.
>> 
>> You're clutching at straws, hoping you can just guess what the problem is. 
>> Stop.
>> 
>> Xcode is clearly showing you there's an issue, yes? What exactly is that 
>> issue? Are you stopping in the debugger? If so, what's the stack trace 
>> there? Is there anything in the console?
>> 
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