Thanks for the insightful reply, and of course to Jonny Yu and Scott Anguish as well.
On 8 Dec 2011, at 17:36, Matt Neuburg wrote: >> You can certainly make assumptions about when dealloc is called - it is >> extremely deterministic, actually. See Greg Parker's discussion (in the WWDC >> 2011 videos) of the order in which things happen as an object goes out of >> existence. Indeed I will. .. > >> PS In the case of a view controller on iOS, I usually register in >> viewDidAppear and unregister in viewWillDisappear. But you still have to use >> one of these solutions to make sure the observer isn't also retained by >> self, or you'll leak. That was I ended up implementing as well. A twist on the tale, is that the observer wasn't the UIViewController, but a helper object subclassed from NSObject. Hence view-unloading was one step further removed from deallocation of the observer-instance. /Mikkel Islay _______________________________________________ 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
