Question

I got a interesting riddle here. My cocos2d project uses a UIView to display nicer popups than the regular alert view. To be more flexible in the size of the popup, I draw the background in the drawRect method.

But first the hierarchy how I implement cocos2d and UIKit:

Every UIKit element is added to the RootViewController. Every CCNode to the EAGLView. (If someone has a better solution to mix those world, don’t wait to tell me!) Unfortunately is every UIKit view in front of cocos nodes.

Everything works fine when I add the first popup to the RootViewController. But if I remove the first popup and add a new one to the RootViewController occurs a bad access.
It crashes only in combination with cocos2d.

I use the code from Ray Wenderlichs CoreGraphics 101 tutorial.

context and strokeColor are not nil.
Another important infos: I use ARC and am supporting iOS 4.2 and above.

The complete code can be found at raywenderlich.com or below

void drawLinearGradient(CGContextRef context, CGRect rect, CGColorRef startColor, CGColorRef endColor)
{
    CGColorSpaceRef colorSpace = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB();
    CGFloat locations[] = { 0.0, 1.0 };

    NSArray *colors = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:(__bridge id)startColor, (__bridge id)endColor, nil];

    CGGradientRef gradient = CGGradientCreateWithColors(colorSpace, 
                                                        (__bridge CFArrayRef) colors, locations);

    CGPoint startPoint = CGPointMake(CGRectGetMidX(rect), CGRectGetMinY(rect));
    CGPoint endPoint = CGPointMake(CGRectGetMidX(rect), CGRectGetMaxY(rect));

    CGContextSaveGState(context);
    CGContextAddRect(context, rect);
    CGContextClip(context);
    CGContextDrawLinearGradient(context, gradient, startPoint, endPoint, 0);
    CGContextRestoreGState(context);

    CGGradientRelease(gradient);
    CGColorSpaceRelease(colorSpace);
}

CGRect rectFor1PxStroke(CGRect rect)
{
    return CGRectMake(rect.origin.x + 0.5, rect.origin.y + 0.5, rect.size.width - 1, rect.size.height -1);
}

- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect
{
    CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
    CGRect frame = CGRectInset(self.bounds, 2, 2);

    CGContextSetShadowWithColor(context, CGSizeMake(0, 0), 3.0, shadowColor);

    CGRect strokeRect = CGRectInset(frame, -2.0, -2.0);
    CGContextSetStrokeColorWithColor(context, strokeColor);
    CGContextSetLineWidth(context, 2.0);
    CGContextStrokeRect(context, rectFor1PxStroke(strokeRect));
    drawLinearGradient(context, frame, gradient1, gradient2);
}

Answer 1

ARC releases the CGColorRef named strokeColor. One fix is to replace it with an CGFloat array and use CGContextSetStrokeColor instead CGContextSetStrokeColorWithColor

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App crashes when using __bridge for CoreGraphics gradient on ARC