Yes, you cannot use UIButton's as keys in a dictionary, because keys in a 
dictionary are copied, and buttons are not copyable.

Here's the better question:  what are you trying to do?  Using buttons as keys 
in a dictionary seems... odd.

Cheers,

Dave

On May 11, 2010, at 2:36 PM, Alejandro Marcos Aragón wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm new to Cocoa, and I couldn't find information about an error that I'm 
> getting on the web. I'm trying to create an NSMutableDictionary where the 
> keys are of type UIButton*:
> 
> 
>                       // create button for unit
>                       UIButton* unitButton = [[UIButton alloc] init];
>                       [sourceButtonMap setObject:[NSString 
> stringWithString:@"no"] forKey:unitButton];
> 
> Of course, the sourceButtonMap is defined in the class and initialized in the 
> init function as sourceButtonMap = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
> 
> The error I get when I try to add the key-value pair is:
> 
> *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', 
> reason: '*** -[UIButton copyWithZone:]: unrecognized selector sent to 
> instance 0x3931e90'
> 
> Is this happening because I can't store UIButton* as keys?
> Can anyone point me why I'm getting this error? Thank you all,
> 
> aa

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