Re: Non-retained NSImages still available?
Re: Non-retained NSImages still available?
- Subject: Re: Non-retained NSImages still available?
- From: "stephen joseph butler" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 20:43:44 -0500
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Matt R <email@hidden> wrote:
> imgArray[x] = [NSImage imageNamed:@"foo.jpg"];
>
> Throughout the scope of my app, when the drawRect fires, these images
> always
> appear properly. But today I suddenly released that I never retained them,
> which has me kind of baffled. My understanding was that once the method
> that
> creates the auto-released object exits, eventually that object will be
> released. Other objects, like NSStrings, which are created within this
> view's methods, seem to need to be retained as the view's methods use the
> object, but the NSImage array shows up without being retained. Can someone
> please help me understand why this is?
NSImage is caching them, and your app doesn't create enough images to force
an eviction. But if you ever do end up evicting one of them, you'll run into
problems (obviously).
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