Question

So, I got a little problem with my own UIViewcontroller subclass, it won’t get deallocced when I press the back button on the navigation bar. I really have no idea why it won’t even call the dealloc method. My other viewcontroller deallocs just fine. Has anyone encountered similar problem before? If you want me to post some code, say as I have no idea why it does this.

detailViewController *detailViewC = [[detailViewController alloc] init];
[detailViewC setItem:[items objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:detailViewC animated:YES];
[detailViewC release];

My init method is here:

- (id)initWithNibName:(NSString *)nibNameOrNil bundle:(NSBundle *)nibBundleOrNil
{
self = [super initWithNibName:nibNameOrNil bundle:nibBundleOrNil];
if (self) {
    // Custom initialization
}
return self;

}

Answer 1

Code would be nice…

Anyway, if it does not deallocate, then (bar bad bugs in iOS) it must be because something is holding on to it.

Have you some other object (for instance another controller) that holds a reference to your controller in one of its retaining properties? That could be a relatively simple explanation.