Because it's the applicationDidTerminate notification from NSWorkspace, informing me about other applications closing, not my own.
-Mic 2009/3/13 Sandy McGuffog <mcguff...@gmail.com>: > I'm pretty sure the run-time will sort that all out for you. > > But I'm a bit confused here - if you're getting an applicationDidTerminate > notification, why not just remove them there anyway? > > Sandy > > On Mar 13, 2009, at 12:54 PM, Mic Pringle wrote: > >> 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/mcguffogl%40gmail.com >> >> This email sent to mcguff...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ 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
