I have it mostly working now. Thanks for your help. tl;dr: my .xib's were really messed up, it probably should never have worked but the problems became more apparent when I refactored a single large, rather messy source file.
In the beginning I did not use a Navigation Controller; I "added" that later however I left in a .xib that I should have deleted. In addition I implemented the Nav. Con. only for iPhone, it was when I went to add support for iPad that everything went south. It was helpful and informative to validate my IBOutlets with assertions. Now my code has lots of assertions, I can leave them there maybe they'll find trouble later. I found what I believe to be an XCode 6.2 bug, I will file a report after I regress it a but more. I had a custom called called "LifeIPhoneViewController", but when I entered the name, it was always saved as "UIViewController". Once I noticed the problem I was completely unable to get the exact text "LifeIPhoneViewController" to stick; "LifeIPhone" was OK, as was any length of string that started with an alphabetic character. "LifeIPhoneViewControlle" without the final "r" would be saved. Not noticing this for quite a long time was a good part of my problem. I moved back to XCode 6.0.1 until I resolved it. I renamed that class to "LifePhoneViewController". I think the text field is attempting to validate the entered text but getting very confused somehow; or maybe it is inappropriate code reuse, in that something that wasn't meant to validate really is. I managed to borrow the $99.00 for The Apple Tax. I'm going to a job fair tomorrow with twenty potential employers; I hope to demo Warp Life running on my iPad: http://www.warplife.com/life/ It is my take on the Cellular Automaton known as Conway's Game of Life; I've been into it since 1972. Thanks Again, Mike -- Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. _______________________________________________ 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
