Synthesizing an array of UIImageView objects?

[LiquidChaz]

I'm trying to declare an array of UIImageView objects but I keep getting the error type of property 'mySquare' does not match type of ivar 'mySquare' on the synthesize line. What am I doing wrong?


In the .h:

UIImageView *mySquare[3];

@property (nonatomic, retain) UIImageView *mySquare;

And in the .m:

@synthesize mySquare; //error is here

[rwenderlich]

The problem is c-style arrays and properties don't get along too well... there's a nice article describing the problem here:

@synthesize-ing a C array of structs in Objective-C 2.0 - Stack Overflow

If you want to keep using c-style arrays as you have it, you could use the following work-around:

// .h
@property (readonly) UIImageView ** mySquare;
// .m
@dynamic mySquare;
- (UIImageView **)mySquare { return mySquare; }

Another perhaps simpler workaround is to use an NSArray instead of a c-style array.