Question

I have a UIView and I am animating it.
The thing here is that I need to release theView once it is animated out.

originalRECT = [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds];

if(theView)
{
    [UIView beginAnimations:nil context:nil];
    [UIView setAnimationDuration:0.3];
    [UIView setAnimationCurve:UIViewAnimationCurveEaseOut];

    theView setFrame = originalRECT;

    [UIView commitAnimations];
    [theView autorelease];
    theView = nil;
}

So I know the code is setting theView to nil, but the animation does finish ok (No SIGABRT or something like that)
Or is there a callback function I can use to know that the view disappeared? How can I use a function like that in this case?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Few things –

First of all if you want to be sure you can use:

[UIView animateWithDuration:1.0 
                  delay:0.0 
                options:UIViewAnimationCurveEaseInOut 
             animations:^ {
                 //your animation
                  theView setFrame = originalRECT;
             } 
             completion:^(BOOL finished) {
                 //Animation finished you can release
                 [theView release];
 }];

second – why do you use autoRelease and not release?

[theView release];

Third – Just for w meeter you don’t know. USE ARC it will make your life a bit easier. You can read more here ARC tutorial