Question

I’m trying to override the setter setView in a UIViewController subclass, the reason being is that setView in UIViewController autoreleases the view and I want to handle the memory management myself.

I’m trying override setView with my setView below:

-(void)setView:(UIView *)view
{
if (_view != view)
   {
    [_view release];
    _view = [view retain];
   }
}

But the compiler seems to not find the _view ivar, so im curious to know what the setView setter in UIViewController looks like? Or any other ways i can handle the view property’s memory myself?

Answer 1

It should look roughly like this:

-(void)setView:(UIView *)view
{
    if (_view != view)
    {
        [_view release]; // Release _view, not view
        _view = [view retain];
    }
}