Question

Does a UIView retain it’s associated view controller?

For example, in the following code the view is retained by the parent view. It would be handy if this view also retained its ViewController so that I could go ahead and release the controller in the loadView method.

- (void) loadView {

  ...

  MyViewController* ctrl = [[MyViewController alloc] init];
  [self.view addSubview: ctrl.view];
  [ctrl release];

}

The alternative, I suppose, is to keep track of the controller as an instance variable and release it when appropriate.

Thanks

Answer 1

No it doesnt. You need a member variable, as you mentioned already.

(A view doesn’t even know its own viewController)