On Sep 27, 2008, at 4:44 PM, Uli Kusterer wrote:
That said, I fully agree on one partial point you raised: 'Release when closed' is dangerous and complicates matters. It should be off by default, and it's very likely that nobody would miss it. That said, I don't know what it was originally introduced for. Any old NeXTies here who know?
Well, I'm not an old NeXTie, but I use this when I make a "throw away" window programmatically. Something like the About panel, say. Instead of setting up a delegate and have it autorelease the window on the -windowShouldClose: method, I just set it up with release when closed and I know when the window is closed it gets released.
I have no idea why it's an option in a nib file, though. Perhaps someone just wanted to be thorough in giving you the window's options?
Does the window really get deallocated when using this option? I haven't really looked, but wouldn't the nib's owner still have a reference to it as part of its top level objects?
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