Article:		Variables Inside Cocoa Objects
Subject:		Setter example
Date:		2002-04-13 17:22:14
From:		shiny
Hi, Thanks for your timely article on AppleScript and Cocoa. I found your article very informative and enjoyable. Just a minor point. Your setter example causes some problems such as memory leak. Your code mystring = str; should've been [mystring autorelease]; or [mystring release]; mystring = [str copy]; or mystring = [str retain]; Thanks again for your article. I'm looking forward to reading your next one. shin

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• Re: Setter example
  2002-04-14 10:06:35  bdominy [View]
  
  
  Hi Shin,
  
  You are quite correct that one of your suggested means of releasing the existing mystring should have been used when making the new assignment to avoid memory leaks. I can only claim that I was trying to use the minimum amount of code to keep all of the concepts clear and I didn't want to introduce the issues concerning memory management and Objective-C. But, for completeness you are absolute correct and I will add this to future examples.
  
  Brad