Saturday, November 12, 2011

Strange behaviour when method in "@selector" missed a parameter

I was reading and trying some of the code from this article (Cocos2D iphone tutorial: Die, Grossini, Die! – Part I) about some basic Cocos2D stuffs. One of the things I have is to create a clickable "Restart" text as below:

-(void)stateChange_gameOverDisplay {
    
    CCLOG(@"inside stateChange_gameOverDisplay");
    
    [CCMenuItemFont setFontName:@"Marker Felt"];
    [CCMenuItemFont setFontSize:30];
    CCMenuItem *play_menu = [CCMenuItemFont itemFromString:@"Restart" target:self selector:@selector(restartGame:)];
    
    CCMenu *menu =[CCMenu menuWithItems:play_menu,nil];
    menu.anchorPoint=ccp(0,0);
    menu.position = ccp(280, 20);
    [self addChild:menu];
    
    CCLOG(@"end of stateChange_gameOverDisplay");
    
}

But when I run the code, there's nothing been displayed and it just keep looping and looping as below:

inside stateChange_gameOverDisplay
inside stateChange_gameOverDisplay
inside stateChange_gameOverDisplay
inside stateChange_gameOverDisplay
inside stateChange_gameOverDisplay
inside stateChange_gameOverDisplay
inside stateChange_gameOverDisplay

It took me a long time to work out it's because when I specify the selector, there's an extra ":" behind the method name.

@selector(restartGame:)


But I declared the method incorrectly as below:

-(void)restartGame {
    CCLOG(@"inside restartGame");
    //do something here
}


The correct way should be as below, with the "(id) sender" parameter

-(void)restartGame: (id) sender {
    CCLOG(@"inside restartGame");
    //do something here
}

I guess it's probably because the "@selector" thing can't find the correct method to call? But as there's no error or warning, it might be a bit difficult to relate the symptom to the root cause...

Back in June, I wrote in this post about crash caused by missing ":", I guess this one is also similar, but from different angle, somehow.

So one more tips for everyone if you get similar strange behaviour like this...

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