Delegate Being Sent To Wrong Class - iphone

Question

I subclassed my navigation bar, making the title view clickable. When clicked, it will present another view controller. I am creating a protocol in the navigation bar, that will tell the navigation controller that the title view has been clicked. Here is how my navigation bar is defined:
NavigationBar.h:
#protocol NavigationBarDelegate;
#interface NavigationBar : UINavigationBar
{
id <NavigationBarDelegate> delegate;
BOOL _titleClicked;
}
#property (nonatomic, assign) id <NavigationBarDelegate> delegate;
#end
#protocol NavigationBarDelegate
#optional
- (void)titleButtonClicked:(BOOL)titleClicked;
#end
The delegate implements one optional method. The .m file is as follows:
NavigationBar.m:
#implementation NavigationBar
- (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame
{
self = [super initWithFrame:frame];
if (self) {
_titleClicked = 0;
}
return self;
}
- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect
{
self.tintColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:(111/255.f) green:(158/255.f) blue:(54/255.f) alpha:(255/255.f)];
UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed:#"titlelogo.png"];
UIButton *titleButton = [[UIButton alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, image.size.width, image.size.height)];
titleButton.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:image];
[titleButton addTarget:self action:#selector(titleButton:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
// self.navigationController.delegate = self;
[self.topItem setTitleView:titleButton];
[super drawRect:rect];
}
- (void)titleButton:(UIButton *)sender
{
_titleClicked = !_titleClicked;
[self.delegate titleButtonClicked:_titleClicked];
}
This creates a navbar with a logo and calls the titleButton method when the title button has been clicked. Everything is fine up till here and the navigation bar displays nicely.
In my RootViewController:
NavigationBar *navigationBar = [[NavigationBar alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0.0f, 0.0f, self.view.frame.size.width, 44.0f)];
navigationBar.delegate = self;
[self.navigationController setValue:navigationBar forKey:#"navigationBar"];
An implementation of titleButtonClicked is also there. When I click on the title view however, I get the following error: -[UINavigationController titleButtonClicked:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance
Why am I getting titleButtonClicked sent to UINavigationController? Is there something I need to do in my navigation controller? I am just using plain old UINavigationController. Do I need to subclass that too? If so, why?
EDIT:
Calling po self.delegate on line [self.delegate titleViewClicked:_titleClicked]; in NavigationBar.m yields the result below. How did the delegate change its type? How can I fix that?
(lldb) po self.delegate
(objc_object *) $1 = 0x07550170 <UINavigationController: 0x7550170>

Answer 1

As #idz said, the problem is with your:
#property (nonatomic, assign) delegete;
Don't you see that it's weird that you don't even have a:
#synthesize delegete;
That's because UINavigationBar already defines a delegate variable as idz said.
change your declaration to:
// use unsafe_unretained in ARC, not assign
#property (nonatomic, unsafe_unretained) myDelegete;
and of course
#synthesize myDelegate;

Answer 2

You have a clash/ambiguity between your delegate and UINavigationBar's delegate property. Rename your delegate to disambiguate them.