Objective-C Category Causing unrecognized selector

Question

My project has a UIImage category function that I want to call from another class. I properly import the header file for the image category and I get the project to compile with no warning.

The problem is that when I call the UIImage category function I seen an unrecognized selector error with a NSInvalidArgumentException. Why am I seeing this if I've properly linked everything?

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@interface UIImage (DRShare)

+ (UIImage*) imageNamed:(NSString*)name;

@end


@implementation UIImage (DRShare)

+ (UIImage*) imageNamedDR:(NSString*)name{

    CGFloat s = 1.0f;
    if([[UIScreen mainScreen] respondsToSelector:@selector(scale)]){
        s = [[UIScreen mainScreen] scale];
    }

    NSString *path = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@%@.png",kImagesPath,name,s > 1 ? @"@2x":@""];
    return [UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:DRBUNDLE(path)];
}

@end

file that calls it:

        backgroundView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamedDR:@"Share Popup Background"]];

exception raised:

2010-10-22 11:51:02.880 Stuff[11432:207] +[UIImage imageNamedDR:]: unrecognized selector sent to class 0x1f8e938
2010-10-22 11:51:02.883 Stuff[11432:207] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '+[UIImage imageNamedDR:]: unrecognized selector sent to class 0x1f8e938'
*** Call stack at first throw:
(
    0   CoreFoundation                      0x02e65b99 __exceptionPreprocess + 185
    1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x02fb540e objc_exception_throw + 47
    2   CoreFoundation                      0x02e6776b +[NSObject(NSObject) doesNotRecognizeSelector:] + 187
    3   CoreFoundation                      0x02dd72b6 ___forwarding___ + 966
    4   CoreFoundation                      0x02dd6e72 _CF_forwarding_prep_0 + 50
    5   TapTapShare                         0x0001291c -[DRShareViewController backgroundView] + 127
    6   TapTapShare                         0x00012343 -[DRShareViewController loadView] + 639
    7   UIKit                               0x0044f54f -[UIViewController view] + 56
    8   UIKit                               0x0044d9f4 -[UIViewController contentScrollView] + 42
    9   UIKit                               0x0045d7e2 -[UINavigationController _computeAndApplyScrollContentInsetDeltaForViewController:] + 48
    10  UIKit                               0x0045bea3 -[UINavigationController _layoutViewController:] + 43
    11  UIKit                               0x0045d12d -[UINavigationController _startTransition:fromViewController:toViewController:] + 524
    12  UIKit                               0x00457ccd -[UINavigationController _startDeferredTransitionIfNeeded] + 266
    13  UIKit                               0x00574b55 -[UILayoutContainerView layoutSubviews] + 226
    14  QuartzCore                          0x02616481 -[CALayer layoutSublayers] + 177
    15  QuartzCore                          0x026161b1 CALayerLayoutIfNeeded + 220
    16  QuartzCore                          0x026160bd -[CALayer layoutIfNeeded] + 111

please provide code and Exception details. Quite impossible to answer without that. — Matthias Bauch
Could it be, that your instance is actually a different class? — Georg Schölly
ps. this is a weird issue, i've had it work perfectly fine for a long time and something just went haywire. — devinross
Probably just me being stupid but you have declared imageNamed: and then the implementation for imageNamedDR:` but this method isn't declared in the header. (Obviously old and you have probably fixed the issue by now). Was this just a typo or was an actual issue? — Popeye

Dave DeLong Dave DeLong · Accepted Answer · 2010-10-22T16:05:40

A couple possibilities:

You did not link UIImage+TTShare.m into your target. So while you have the header, you're not compiling the implementation.
If this is part of a static library, you need to add -all_load to the Other Linker Flags build setting for the app linking against the library.

Objective-C Category Causing unrecognized selector

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