On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Andy Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Jun 2, 2008, at 1:50 PM, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
>
>> If your window is sometimes disappearing under GC -- is sometimes being
>> collected prior to when you think it should be -- that means that the
>> collector doesn't believe that the window object is being used by your
>> application.  To the collector, being visible doesn't count as "in use".
>
> I've been assuming that NSApplication keeps a strong reference to all
> windows in its window list, but now that I think of it there's no particular
> reason to assume that.  Is it not the case?  I just want to correct my
> mental model if I've been mis-assuming.

I'd assumed the same without realising it. I predict that this is
going to become a FAQ on this list!

Hamish
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