On Feb 24, 2009, at 8:25 PM, Richard Good wrote:
-(DateTest*) init {
[super init];
aDate =[NSDate date];
return self;
}
Wait a minute. I just figured out you're saying the *debugger* says
datesubClass.aDate is out of scope, not the compiler as I thought.
The reason is that you're not retaining aDate in the init method. It
gets deallocated prematurely and the pointer is invalid, hence "out of
scope". Try
aDate = [[NSDate date] retain];
If it's unclear why you need to do this, you need to study memory
management -- it's a prominent chapter in the docs, you should be able
to find it, plus it's linked to many, many times in the list archives.
There are other coding issues: init methods should return id, and they
should check the result of [super init]. There's a chapter on
"writing initializers" or some such -- look for that too.
--Andy
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