> On Aug 23, 2019, at 2:17 PM, Casey McDermott via Cocoa-dev 
> <cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com> wrote:
> 
> After we finished, the controller for our main window started being 
> deallocated some random time after launch.
> Apparently the erroneous strong references were keeping it alive.

AppKit delegates, like NSWindow.delegate, are unsafe-unretained references; 
this might be giving you trouble.

> We allocate the controller in our app delegate class. It's a member but 
> apparently that is not a 
> strong enough reference, so the controller is released at the end of the 
> scope.

A member variable is a strong reference by default, so that should suffice to 
keep it alive. Is your app delegate itself being dealloced?

—Jens
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