Question

My code is as follows

TTTableLongTextItem *descItem = [[TTTableLongTextItem alloc] autorelease];
TTStyledText *styledDesc = [[TTStyledText alloc] autorelease];
styledDesc = [TTStyledText textWithURLs:@"howdy http://www.google.com"];

//this line causes the SIGABRT:
descItem.text = styledDesc;
//I also get a warning on this line that says "warning: passing argument 1 of 'setText:' from distinct Objective-C type"

What am I missing here? Any help is muchly appreciated – Three20 documentation is a little sparse!

Answer 1

You are also overriting styledDesc:

declare a vairable styledDesc, and assign a TTStyledText instance that is autoreleased (but not initialized, should be [[[TTStyledText alloc] init] autorelease];
TTStyledText *styledDesc = [[TTStyledText alloc] autorelease];
//create a new autoreleased TTStyledText instance via the textWithURLS: member function, and assign it to styledDesc. styledDesc abandons the pointer to the one you made with alloc.
styledDesc = [TTStyledText textWithURLs:@"howdy http://www.google.com"];

Here’s my guess of what you really want:

TTTableLongTextItem *descItem = [[[TTTableLongTextItem alloc] init] autorelease];
descItem.text = @"howdy";

but I don’t really know what these TTTableLongTextItem or TTStyledText objects are so I can’t tell you much about what you were trying to do with the howdy and google website.