Re: Arrays containing container -- retain cycle?

FROM : Scott Stevenson
DATE : Thu Dec 02 21:14:34 2004

On Dec 2, 2004, at 10:38 AM, Matt Budd (Madentec) wrote:

> Basically, I want to just have an array of references (like the first
> example of the single links, but with multiple items), instead of
> having NSMutableArray retain it's objects and then try to release them
> when it dealloc's. Is there any work around?


Either use a simple C-style array or look at NSValue's
-nontretainedObjectValue.

You can instantiate an NSValue with a pointer to your X or Y objects,
and the NSArray will only retain the NSValue object, not the true
object it references.

    - Scott


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