On Feb 1, 2010, at 00:10:11, Roland King wrote:

> Because NSDictionary requires keys to be copyable because it copies them 
> (it's in the documentation). Use a CFDictionary() instead, you can set it up 
> to retain the keys and do what you want.

Oh! I thought NSDictionary and CFDictionary were the same thing under the hood.

> 
> Rick Mann wrote:
>> I'd like to use a CALayer object as a key in a dictionary. The reason is 
>> that when my app detects a hit in a layer, I need to quickly determine which 
>> object I've associated with it. Since I can't store a reference to an 
>> arbitrary object in the CALayer, a dictionary seems to be the most expedient 
>> way to do that.
>> Unfortunately, I can't seem to add my layer as the key (it fails with 
>> "-[CALayer copyWithZone:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 
>> 0x50132a0"). It's really pretty handy to be able to use any object as a key, 
>> why is this not the case in Obj-C?
>> TIA,
>> Rick
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