In my controller, one of my instance variables is a NSURL and I retain it because I pass it to a 2nd controller. In my second controller, I extract [myURL path] and look at it in a secondary thread loop and everything works fine. I began to think if I could eliminate that call to [myURL path] every time through that loop I would save "some" time.

My first attempt was to pass that NSURL in the same manner and then place the extracted [myURL path] into an instance variable of the 2nd controller. Okay so far .. and then I assumed that if myURL was retained in the 1st controller, then "naturally" its NSString -path was also retained .. but it crashed with "release message sent to a already released object" (or something like that). Only when I extracted the -path *and* retained it before I stored it as an instance variable of the 2nd controller did it work.

Basic question: if a parent object is retained, why isn't each sibling component object of that parent retained??

John Love
Touch the Future! Teach!



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