But I thought that it was best practice to remove yourself from the notification center before terminating your application, as doesn't the notification center live in the objective-c runtime and therefore is always active, regardless of whether your application is or isn't ?
-Mic 2009/3/13 Mike Abdullah <cocoa...@mikeabdullah.net>: > By definition, if it's a singleton, it will exist for the lifetime of the > program; there is no risk of the notification centre sending messages to a > now non-existent object. > > On 13 Mar 2009, at 10:31, Mic Pringle wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've been looking into creating a singleton class to manage some >> objects that I have that I'd like to be globally available. I've been >> reading through >> http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?SingletonDesignPattern and all looks >> well except I now have the following question ... >> >> I'd like my singleton to observe the NSWorkspace notifications >> applicationDidLaunch and applicationDidTerminate. I can setup the >> observations in the init method, but how to I go about removing them ? >> You would normally do in the dealloc method, but it seems you're not >> meant to override dealloc in a singleton ? Would it suffice to put >> them in the overridden release method ? If so, does this get called >> automatically when I close the application ? >> >> If I can't remove the notifications, I could end up with the >> notification centre try to foward them to an object that no longer >> exists. >> >> Thanks >> >> -Mic >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) >> >> Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. >> Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com >> >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> >> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/cocoadev%40mikeabdullah.net >> >> This email sent to cocoa...@mikeabdullah.net > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
