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What happens if I release an autoreleased object? Its an autoreleased UIButton I want to release and the only way to create a UIButton is to use the convinience method buttonWithType:. Will it be released from memory like a normal object? Or should I just let the autoreleasepool take care of it? I wouldn’t have made it autoreleased in the first place if I could.
Thanks!!
You should just let the autorelease pool take care of it. Once you add your button to a parent view, that view will retain it, and the autoreleased handle will get taken care of by the autorelease pool.
The easiest way to think of it is in terms of ownership—you don’t “own” the reference you got via a convenience method, so you don’t need to bother releasing it unless you retain it as well.