what does the symbols array contain? are you sure it’s the length you think it 
is? and what is index? It says −1 or possibly larger.


On Mar 18, 2010, at 3:38 PM, H. Miersch wrote:

> hi.
> I have a window with 3 comboboxes. one of them uses a data source. the 
> problem is that it keeps throwing an exception, and i can't find out why. 
> I've put the following methods in my appcontroller:
> 
> -(NSInteger)numberOfItemsInComboBox:(NSComboBox *)aComboBox {
>       return (NSInteger)[symbols count];
> }
> 
> -(id)comboBox:(NSComboBox *)sender objectValueForItemAtIndex:(NSInteger)index 
> {
>       return [symbols objectAtIndex:index];
> }
> 
> symbols is an NSMutableArray which can contain any number of NSStrings (I 
> initialize it with 5 NSStrings)
> 
> when i try to launch the app from within xcode, the console shows the 
> following:
> 
> 2010-03-18 19:26:28.515 StoX[63999:a0f] An uncaught exception was raised
> 2010-03-18 19:26:28.534 StoX[63999:a0f] *** -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: 
> index (-1 (or possibly larger)) beyond bounds (5)
> 2010-03-18 19:26:28.596 StoX[63999:a0f] *** Terminating app due to uncaught 
> exception 'NSRangeException', reason: '*** -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index 
> (-1 (or possibly larger)) beyond bounds (5)'
> *** Call stack at first throw:
> (
>       0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff87ddb444 
> __exceptionPreprocess + 180
>       1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fff800470f3 
> objc_exception_throw + 45
>       2   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff87ddb267 
> +[NSException raise:format:arguments:] + 103
>       3   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff87ddb1f4 
> +[NSException raise:format:] + 148
>       4   Foundation                          0x00007fff8798e080 
> _NSArrayRaiseBoundException + 122
>       5   Foundation                          0x00007fff878f0b81 -[NSCFArray 
> objectAtIndex:] + 75
>       6   AppKit                              0x00007fff80ba2012 
> -[NSComboBoxCell selectItemAtIndex:] + 191
>       7   StoX                                0x0000000100001693 
> -[AppController awakeFromNib] + 50
>       8   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff87d8a82d -[NSSet 
> makeObjectsPerformSelector:] + 205
>       9   AppKit                              0x00007fff8086c913 
> -[NSIBObjectData nibInstantiateWithOwner:topLevelObjects:] + 1445
>       10  AppKit                              0x00007fff8086ab49 loadNib + 226
>       11  AppKit                              0x00007fff8086a059 
> +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) _loadNibFile:nameTable:withZone:ownerBundle:] + 248
>       12  AppKit                              0x00007fff80869e91 
> +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibNamed:owner:] + 326
>       13  AppKit                              0x00007fff80867413 
> NSApplicationMain + 279
>       14  StoX                                0x00000001000015a8 start + 52
> )
> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'NSException'
> 
> i've checked that i'm using the types that the docs say i should be using, 
> but i don't understand why index comes back as -1. 
> 
> am i doing something wrong? should I be doing something i'm not doing? is the 
> documentation wrong? is there a bug 
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