On Apr 9, 2009, at 6:00 PM, Miles wrote:
I have created a static method creating and returning an animation
that I
use in various places in my application. I think this may be causing
a leak.
If I autorelease theAnimation in the return statement I get a crash
because
I the animation must be being release before it's complete.
Right, because "theAnimation" is *already* autoreleased. The method
"animationWithKeyPath" does not contain "new", "alloc", or "copy",
therefore you do not own the object, and therefore you are not
responsible for (auto)releasing it.
Is this indeed causing a leak?
No.
Might I suggest you review <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/MemoryMgmt/Articles/mmObjectOwnership.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000043
>.
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