On Jan 30, 2014, at 16:30 , Graham Cox <graham....@bigpond.com> wrote:

> However, the documentation states: 
> 
> "If you override this method, you must call super or raise an 
> NSInvalidArgumentException exception at the end of your implementation. In 
> other words, this method must not return normally; it must always result in 
> an exception being thrown."

Yeah, that wasn’t the right place to do it. The correct place sounds like 
‘forwardInvocation:’, about which the documentation states:

> A forwardInvocation: method can act as a distribution center for unrecognized 
> messages, parceling them out to different receivers. Or it can be a transfer 
> station, sending all messages to the same destination. It can translate one 
> message into another, or simply “swallow” some messages so there’s no 
> response and no error. A forwardInvocation: method can also consolidate 
> several messages into a single response. What forwardInvocation:does is up to 
> the implementor. However, the opportunity it provides for linking objects in 
> a forwarding chain opens up possibilities for program design.


Alternatively and more simply, it seems, you could return nil from 
‘forwardingTargetForSelector:’.

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