Question

I have a property defined as:

@property(nonatomic, retain) UITableView *settingsTableView;

Then in my viewDidLoad method I have:

self.settingsTableView = [[[UITableView alloc] initWithFrame:tableFrame style:UITableViewStyleGrouped] autorelease];
[self.view addSubview:self.settingsTableView];
[self.settingsTableView release];

Then in the dealloc method of the view controller I have:

[settingsTableView release];

When I attempt to do the release from within the dealloc I am getting a “message sent to deallocated instance”. I am starting to second guess myself, anybody see anything stupid in what I’ve done?

Really appreciate the help on this one!

Answer 1

you’re calling release on an object you’ve already autoreleased. Just get rid of the line

[self.settingsTableView release];

and you should be good.

Note that you should keep the release in the dealloc method, since the property calls retain for you, but not release.