Question

I use initWithNibName to load detail views. I was just thinking do these things need to be released at all? init is basically adding a retain count of 1?

Answer 1

@Mel:

Yes you need to release them.

A Part from Apple’s Doumentation:

You own any object you create

You create an object using a method whose name begins with “alloc”, “new”, “copy”, or “mutableCopy” (for example, alloc, newObject, or mutableCopy).

But as such it has nothing to do with initWithNibName but it is related to four words which allocate the memory that is ‘mutableCopy’,’copy’, ‘retain’ and ‘alloc’. So hope it is clear to you now.

init keyword just initializes an object. Allocation of memory is done though alloc or retain or copy or mutableCopy keyword

And the retain count of 1 that you are talking about is because of the alloc keyword, not the initWithNibName.

Hope this helps you.