Question

When I try to build my project, I get the following error message

ABC Functions forbid explocit messages send of dealoc

- (void)dealloc {
    [super dealloc];
}

this is the class def:

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import <MediaPlayer/MediaPlayer.h>


@interface cPlay : UIViewController{
    MPMoviePlayerController *mp;

}
- (void) moviePlayBackDidFinish:(NSNotification*)notification;
-(void) NewVideo : (NSString *) strName;
@end

Answer 1

Just remove the dealloc function, ARC (Automatic Reference Counting) doesn’t allow dealloc by yourself. ARC will do that for you.

See this link:

http://www.raywenderlich.com/5677/beginning-arc-in-ios-5-part-1

One of the things I love about ARC is that in most cases it completely does away with the > need to write dealloc methods. When an object is deallocated its instance variables and
synthesized properties are automatically released. You no longer have to write:

- (void)dealloc
{
    [_window release];
    [_viewController release];
   [super dealloc];
}

because Objective-C automatically takes care of this now. In fact, it’s not even possible > to write the above anymore. Under ARC you are not allowed to call release, nor [super
dealloc]. You can still implement dealloc — and you’ll see an example of this later — but
it’s no longer necessary to release your ivars by hand.