Swift unrecognized selector sent to instance - What am I missing?

Question

I can\'t see why the following button is throwing an error:2014-08-13 00:29:57.674 view1[26581:842344] -[view1.ViewController buttonAction:]: unrecognized selector sent to i

Answer 1

Your buttonAction target is nested inside your viewDidLoad() method. Move it outside and it should be reachable.

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    func buttonAction(sender:UIButton)
    {
        println("Button tapped")
    }

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        // ...

        let button   = UIButton.buttonWithType(UIButtonType.System) as UIButton
        // ...
        button.addTarget(self, action: "buttonAction:", forControlEvents: UIControlEvents.TouchUpInside)
        myView.addSubview(button)
    }
}