Elysian Shadows

Posted: **Thu Jun 17, 2010 8:39 pm**

Hello all, right now I'm trying to learn Objective-C so that I can (hopefully) eventually make games for the IPhone.
Right now I'm looking at a tutorial for Objective-C, and I saw this code in it:

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#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>

@interface Photo : NSObject {
      NSString* caption;
      NSString* photographer;
}
@property (retain) NSString* caption;
@property (retain) NSString* photographer;

@end

The tutorial says that this will retain the new value, but if you were to @synthesize the two, would it also release caption/photographer?

Posted: **Thu Jun 17, 2010 9:38 pm**

retain increases or sets the reference count to 1, not completely sure.
@synthesize just auto produces setters and getters.

Posted: **Fri Jun 18, 2010 10:22 am**

Do the setters release the old object?

Posted: **Mon Jul 12, 2010 3:25 am**

I don't ever retain my NSStrings but retain just adds +1 to the reference count so as to prevent EXC_BAD_ACCESS because of missing memory

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