Objective-C Class allocation crash

MrMegabytes

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Post: #1

Jan 12, 2009 — 06:11 AM

Hey guys, this is a real noobie question so please bare with me. I'm 100% new to Mac, only had this macbook for a week. I want to get into IPhone dev and here I am. I've been writing code for c/c++ windows applications for some time now so i'm not a coding noob, just obj-c

Anyway, here is my question.
I'm trying to allocate memory for a near empty class. But its crashing on the alloc function... here we go..

Sprite.h file

Code:

@interface Sprite 

{

    @private

        bool m_init;

}

- (void)draw;

@end

Sprite.m

Code:

#import "Sprite.h"

@implementation Sprite

- (void)init

{

    m_init = TRUE;

}

- (void)draw

{

}

@end

ELGLView.m offending code

Code:

        if( !m_init )

        {

            m_sprite = [[Sprite alloc] init];

            m_init = TRUE;

        }

I have m_sprite decleared in the ELGView.h file. When I compile i get a waring saying:

Warning: 'Sprite' may not respond to '+alloc'

I'm not sure what that warning means either, but i'm sure it has something to do with my crash. When i rush i through the Iphone simulator it crashes and asks if i want to reload.

When i step through the code it comes up to the

Code:

m_sprite = [[Sprite alloc] init];

line and the callstack says its finished in __forwarding__
Looking at tutorials it appears to be correct, but there might be something very simple that i've forgotten somewhere. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

ThemsAllTook

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Post: #2

Jan 12, 2009 — 08:16 AM

+alloc is an NSObject method. You'll want to change your Sprite interface to subclass NSObject, like so:

Code:

#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>

@interface Sprite : NSObject

In most cases, you'll want all of your objects to subclass NSObject (or a subclass thereof).

DoG

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Post: #3

Jan 12, 2009 — 02:28 PM

And -init must return self. Please read the docs, again if you have done so already.

Don't panic.

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