Question

Hi im trying to retrieve an object of a specific class from an NSMutableArray, and then add it to self: eg:

- (void) init{
     _Objects = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init];
     Psychicing *psy = [[Psychicing alloc]init];
     [psy startPsychic];
     [_Objects addObject: psy];
     [psy release];
}

This creates an object of class Psychicing, then runs the [psy startPsychic] method to create the internals of the class object. Then I add the psy object to _Objects NSMutableArray.

-(void)startPsychic{
      id psychicParticle = [CCParticleSystemQuad ......]; //is Synthesised with (assign)
      //Other things are set here such as position, gravity, speed etc...
}

When a touch is detected on screen, I want to take the psy object from the _Objects array and add it to self: Something like this (Although this gives runtime error)

-(void) Touches.....{

     for (Psychicing *psy in _Objects){
          [self addChild: psy.psychicParticle];
     }
}

I hope i have explained it clearly enough, if you need more clarification let me know.
So basically:
[MainClass Init] -> [Psychicing startPsychic] -> [MainClass add to array] -> [MainClass add to self]

Answer 1

I’m assuming the _Objects (which should be a lowercase o to follow conventions) is storing objects other than the Psychicing object and you’re trying to pull just the Psychicing object out of it in the -(void)Touches… method (which also should be lowercase). If so, you could do:

for (id obj in _Objects)
{
  if ([obj isMemberOfClass:[Psychicing class]])
    [self addChild:obj.psychicParticle];
}

That will cause only the Psychicing objects in the array to be added as a child to self.

It looks like you do have another error though if the code you pasted in is your real code. Init should be defined as:

- (void) init{
     _Objects = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init];
     Psychicing *psy = [[Psychicing alloc]init];
     [psy startPsychic];
     [_Objects addObject: psy];
     [psy release];
}

with _Objects defined as an instance variable (or property) in the class’s interface. As you wrote it, it’s a method variable in the init method and is leaking. So when you try to access _Objects in -touches, _Objects is most likely nil.