This was my perfect excuse to extensively use the Debugger .. so here are the results:
I am using touchesBegan to start the creation of a newGame() where I knew the nil value happened …
- set breakpoint within
newGame()with no error yet - stepped through each statement and progressed to the very end of
touchesEnded(..)with still no error. - then I stepped into and the error happened.
In summary, why didn’t the error happen when I was stepping thru newGame(), but waited until the end of `touchesEnded(..)??
Okay .. maybe I am wrong and the nil object is not occurring within newGame().
So, what is happening after touchesEnded(..) finishes ??