Hi,

It's not much good to me since I don't have a problem passing objects but with 
passing a mixed set.

Type passing, 1,2,3,5.6,@"hello",nil to the arrayWithObjects and you will see 
what I mean

Cheers
Dave


On 21 Aug 2013, at 20:04, Alex Zavatone <z...@mac.com> wrote:

> Just in case the styled text is stripped, here is the line I'm referring to 
> from the header file:
> 
> + (id)arrayWithObjects:(id)firstObj, ... NS_REQUIRES_NIL_TERMINATION;
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On Aug 21, 2013, at 2:58 PM, Alex Zavatone <z...@mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> The approach I mentioned is what NSArray uses to allow an arbitrary amount 
>> of objects in this call to init it.  Supplying nil tells the runtime that 
>> there are no more parameters.
>> 
>> NSArray *myArray;
>> myArray = [NSArray alloc] initWithObjects: @"my String", @"another", 
>> @"more", nil];
>> 
>> It's the nil termination of the parameters approach.
>> 
>> How you do this is that bold line that I outlined earlier.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>> On Aug 21, 2013, at 1:17 PM, "Stephen J. Butler" <stephen.but...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 4:22 AM, Dave <d...@looktowindward.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>      if ([myType isEqualToString:@"NSInteger"] )
>>>>              {
>>>>              myNSInteger = va_arg(myArgumentList,NSInteger*);
>>>> //  do something with myNSInteger
>>>>              [myFormattedString appendFormat:@"myNSInteger = %d ",
>>>> myNSInteger];
>>>>              }
>>>> 
>>>>      else if ([myType isEqualToString:@"CGFloat"] )
>>>>              {
>>>>              myCGFloat = va_arg(myArgumentList, CGFloat*);
>>>> //  do something with myCGFloat
>>>>              [myFormattedString appendFormat:@"myCGFloat = %f ",
>>>> myCGFloat];
>>>>              }
>>> 
>>> 
>>> This is better, however... if you pass an actual NSInteger or CGFloat to
>>> the method, va_arg() should have a type of NSInteger or CGFloat, not
>>> pointers to those types. Your code examples with it's printf style formats
>>> is using the former, not the latter. Just to be clear, you can have all
>>> these cases:
>>> 
>>> if ([myType isEqualToString:@"NSInteger"] ) {
>>> myNSInteger = va_arg(myArgumentList,NSInteger);
>>> } else if ([myType isEqualToString:@"NSInteger*"] ) {
>>> pMyNSInteger = va_arg(myArgumentList,NSInteger*);
>>> } else if ([myType isEqualToString:@"CGFloat"]) {
>>> myCGFloat = va_arg(myArgumentList, CGFloat);
>>> } else if ([myType isEqualToString:@"CGFloat*"]) {
>>> pMyCGFloat = va_arg(myArgumentList, CGFloat*);
>>> } ... etc
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