--- On Sun, 10/26/08, DKJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 26 Oct, 2008, at 12:09, Clark S. Cox III wrote: > > You must do both, otherwise you will leak. > > > I understand why I have to release the temp object, but why > does it > leak if I don't set foregroundColor to nil as well?
Because otherwise there won't be a release to balance the retain in the in setForgroundColor:. See the docs on Objective-C memory management: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/MemoryMgmt/MemoryMgmt.html Cheers, Chuck _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]