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Re: Memory leaks when running an apple event
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Re: Memory leaks when running an apple event


  • Subject: Re: Memory leaks when running an apple event
  • From: Paul Bruneau <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:38:58 -0400

On Oct 12, 2007, at 11:13 AM, Alex Bumbu wrote:

Hi all,

I'm trying to create an simple application using Apple Events to see if a specified application is running (iTunes in my case). A thread from main.m will use the mainProcess method so the script will run every second. The problem I'm having is that the NSAppleEventDescriptor i'm using (result) isn't deallocated and the every 100 secs it grows with 1Mb of memory. Can someone help me please ... I've tried release, dealloc, autorelease and isn't working. Please if you know give me some ideas how to solve this problem in cocoa. Thanx guys.

This is the code I'm using:

-(void)isAppRunning
{
NSString* appleEventString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"set itunes_active to false\n with timeout of 1 second\n tell application \"Finder\"\n if (get name of every process) contains \"iTunes\" then set itunes_active to true\n end tell\n end timeout \n return itunes_active"];
NSAppleScript *script = [[NSAppleScript alloc] initWithSource:appleEventString];
NSDictionary *errorInfo;
NSAppleEventDescriptor* result;
result = [script executeAndReturnError:errorInfo];


   NSLog(@"%@", [result stringValue]);
     [result dealloc];
   [script dealloc];
}

-(void)mainProcess:(id)anObject
{
   NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
     while (1)
   {
       [self isAppRunning];
   }
     [pool release];
}

You shouldn't be calling dealloc yourself. That is up to Cocoa to deal with. You should review the memory management guide several times (from my experience it takes awhile to start to understand.


http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/MemoryMgmt/ index.html
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