Re: Understanding reference count ownership

FROM : j o a r
DATE : Wed May 07 23:47:38 2008

On May 7, 2008, at 2:32 PM, Gregory Seidman wrote:

> I'm just a little unsure of what is handled for me and what I have to
> handle manually. I've already been bitten by autoreleasing stuff 
> that I
> thought I owned, so I'm erring on the side of leaking memory. Of 
> course,
> that's a bad plan for any app and particularly on the iPhone.



The rules are really very straight forward once you spend a little 
time in this environment. Don't worry, you will probably "get it" any 
day now, and after that it's not something you ever have to think 
twice about.

Have a look at the end of this page:

<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CocoaFundamentals/CocoaObjects/chapter_3_section_5.html
>

The rules outlined there should answer all of the questions that you 
posted here. If not, please return to the list with a follow up.

j o a r