iOS Accessing properties of properties

luckylefty01 said:

I've got something that kind of stumps me.

In my iPhone app delegate I have this code, which works (accessing the view property of the UIViewController MainViewController):

Code:

MainViewController *mainViewController =
    (MainViewController*)rootViewController.mainViewController;
MainView *mainView = (MainView *)[mainViewController view];

What I originally wanted to do was:

Code:

MainView *mainView = rootViewController.mainViewController.view;

which fails with an "error: accessing unknown 'view' component of a property."

Can anybody enlighten me as to why?

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MainView *mainView = [rootViewController.mainViewController view];