Re: Simple instance [[alloc] init] question.

2010-08-30 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Aug 30, 2010, at 9:36 PM, Dave Geering wrote: > > I apologise. I was going to explain each one in terms of ownership, > but I couldn't figure out a way to explain how you own something twice > without talking about reference counts. I should probably refrain from > replying to the list any ti

Re: Simple instance [[alloc] init] question.

2010-08-30 Thread Dave Geering
>>> // 1) >>> self.serialIDs = [[IRMSerialDetailsDO alloc] init]; >> >> The alloc method allocates an instance with a retain count of 1, and >> assigning it to the serialIDs property bumps it up to 2. In your >> dealloc method, you will [hopefully] send it a release message which >> puts it back at

Re: Simple instance [[alloc] init] question.

2010-08-30 Thread mmalc Crawford
On Aug 30, 2010, at 6:37 PM, Dave Geering wrote: >> // 1) >> self.serialIDs = [[IRMSerialDetailsDO alloc] init]; > > The alloc method allocates an instance with a retain count of 1, and > assigning it to the serialIDs property bumps it up to 2. In your > dealloc method, you will [hopefully] send

Re: Simple instance [[alloc] init] question.

2010-08-30 Thread Scott Anguish
Assuming his @property was supposed to be (nonatomic,retain) We did the release explicitly when doing some sample code on iPhone. We didn’t want the autorelease pool to grow. IRMSerialDetailsDO *mySerialIDDO = [[IRMSerialDetailsDO alloc] init]; self.serialIDDO = mySerialIDDO; [mySerialIDDO relea

Re: Simple instance [[alloc] init] question.

2010-08-30 Thread Charles Srstka
On Aug 30, 2010, at 7:23 PM, Frederick C. Lee wrote: > // 1) > self.serialIDs = [[IRMSerialDetailsDO alloc] init]; This is, as mentioned, a leak, although if performance is not an issue, you can still have the simplicity: self.serialIDs = [[[IRMSerialDetailsDO alloc] init] autorelease]; Charle

Re: Simple instance [[alloc] init] question.

2010-08-30 Thread Dave Geering
> // 1) > self.serialIDs = [[IRMSerialDetailsDO alloc] init]; The alloc method allocates an instance with a retain count of 1, and assigning it to the serialIDs property bumps it up to 2. In your dealloc method, you will [hopefully] send it a release message which puts it back at 1, but this mean

Re: Simple instance [[alloc] init] question.

2010-08-30 Thread Brian Slick
#1 is a leak. (I'm assuming that "release" is supposed to be "retain" in the property declaration) Brian On Aug 30, 2010, at 8:23 PM, Frederick C. Lee wrote: > Which is the preferred method of object allocation & initialization? > > .h > @property(nonatomic, release) IRMSerialDetailsDO *seria