Re: What are double asterisks for?
Re: What are double asterisks for?
- Subject: Re: What are double asterisks for?
- From: Andrea Perego <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:46:58 +0100
At 1:35 PM -0800 12/29/02, Joseph Jones wrote:
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The double asterisks mean a double pointer, or a pointer to a pointer. This
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usually means that the API will create an NSDictionary object for you and
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pass that back in this parameter.
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Here is an example of how you should call this API:
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NSDictionary *myDict;
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NSFileWrapper* fileWrapper = [[NSFileWrapper alloc] init...];
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[myObject initWithRTFDFileWrapper:fileWrapper documentAttributes:&myDict];
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...Do something with the document attributes now stored in myDict;
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[myDict release];
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[fileWrapper release];
I'm dubious about the [myDict release] statement. The comments in the
framework header file (NSAttributedString.h) do not state anything
definite, but I'd guess
that the NSDictionary instance returned by
"-(id)initWithRTFDFileWrapper:(NSFileWrapper *)wrapper
documentAttributes:(NSDictionary **)dict" is an autoreleased one. In
this case, of course, releasing it in your method would cause a crash
later on, when the autorelease pool is deallocated. Please note,
this is just a concern of mine: I had no time/opportunity to test. As
a suggestion, I'd try with [myDict release] first and eliminate it if
it causes trouble.
Happy New year to all!
Andrea Perego
Univ. of Florence - Phys. Dept.
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