Hi, All,

This is my first attempt to deal with Cocoa container class, so I have some unclear points. I've found one of many tutorials here:

http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?NSTableViewDataSource

where it is said, among other, that NSTableView items may be filled out like this:

- (id)tableView:(NSTableView *)aTableView
        objectValueForTableColumn:(NSTableColumn *)aTableColumn
        row:(int)rowIndex {

return [[myTableViewArray objectAtIndex: rowIndex] objectForKey: [aTableColumn identifier]]

}

My specifics is that the data (strings) are delivered by an external procedure, located out of ObjC stuff, and returning C-style strings. My table has only one column. My question is, as usual, about memory manager: May I write something like this:

exern void getString(int row, char *s, int *len);

- (id)tableView:(NSTableView *)aTableView
        objectValueForTableColumn:(NSTableColumn *)aTableColumn
        row:(int)rowIndex {

char buf[255];
int len;

getString(rowIndex, buf, &len);
return [NSString stringWithCString:buf length:len encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

}

I.e. is it possible to return a NSString without its preliminary retaining?
Or should I add [... retain]  to the returning string?

All examples operate by some values, stored in retained structures, like NSArray. Here my question originates from.

Thanks.
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