NSMutableArray from another view returns empty - ios

Question

I have two UIViews. One UIView, called SelectText has an ivar of NSMutableArray which is populated after performing a certain function.
Here is a snippet code:
- (void)fillDrawPoints
{
//the codes....
[self.drawnPoints addObject:[NSValue valueWithCGPoint:currPoint]];
}
NOTE: The drawnPoints array is initialized in the initWithFrame of SelectText. Also, I always check if the array is actually populated inside the view by putting a log in the function.
Now what I want to do is to access this array from another view. This is what I do:
TextView.h
#import "SelectText.h"
#interface TextView : UIView
{
SelectText *txtSel;
}
#property (nonatomic, retain) SelectText *txtSel;
TextView.m
#synthesize txtSel;
- (void)getDrawingPoints:(NSMutableArray *)pointArray
{
self.pointArray = pointArray;
NSLog(#"Array count: %d", [self.pointArray count]);
}
As you can see from the above code, I am trying to pass the data inside txtSel.drawnPoints to the textView.pointArray for later use. The problem is, the txtSel.drawnPoints always returns empty when I try to access it from another view. What am I doing wrong here?
ADDITIONAL:
This is how I instatiate SelectText
- (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame
{
self = [super initWithFrame:frame];
if (self) {
txtSel = [[SelectText alloc]init];
[self addSubView:txtSel];
//rest of code...
}

Answer 1

change TextView class init method as below
- (id)initWithClassSelectText:(SelectText *)selectText {
if ((self = [super init])) {
txtSel = selectText;
}
return self;
}
And when you make an instance of TextView you use this:
TextView textView = [[TextView alloc] initWithClassSelectText:self];
now you can access all properties of SelectText class using txtSel object