iOS 4.3: Difficulty attaching graphic to an Image View

I am a relative novice who is teaching himself Objective-C on Xcode to develop some simple iPhone game apps. I have done some reading on this but fear I'm missing something basic and obvious.

I made a simple "Hello, World" and, based on opinions in various forums, I decided to do a Tic Tac Toe. I found a nice video and built a version based on that, which ran fine. However, my own interpretation is already running into trouble.

I'm using Xcode 4.0.2 on Snow Leopard. I chose a View-Based Application template and pulled a large image view onto the layout to hold a PNG called board. I put nine small image views on the large one to hold individual cells for X and O (and created some PNGs for the images). I just attached board.png to the big image view through IB so that works fine.

Next I tried to associate cell 1 with x.png by assigning it to a variable called ximg. This is all set up in the view controller's viewDidLoad method like so -- "ximg = [UIImage imageNamed:@"x.png"];". I then used the code "cell1.image = ximg;" -- also in viewDidLoad. X appeared on the board when I built and ran.

My next step was cell 2. I wanted to use a variable in a custom method this time, so I could change it in the future. I declared a method "- (void)setcell2" (bad camelCase, I know). I put the following method into my view controller implementation file:

-(void)setcell2 {

cell2.image = ximg;

}

I also added the following message to viewDidLoad -- 开发者_运维技巧"[self setcell2];"

As you'd guess, I was figuring that when the app loaded, viewDidLoad would send that message to setcell2, which would attach another X in the second box, but this didn't happen.

If someone could give me some idea of what I'm overlooking, I'd be gratified. Example code is appreciated but I can figure that out with time. This is not homework. Thanks for reading!

Most likely you haven't set your cell up properly in Interface Builder. Make sure you have connected the property to the outlet.