I do release them after adding them to the table. It will still crash...

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On Jan 11, 2011, at 7:29 PM, Peter Lübke <[email protected]> wrote:

> Table columns are retained by the table view they are added to.
> 
> So you can safely release or autorelease the table column right after 
> invoking -addTableColumn: .
> The table view owns its columns and will release them when it itself is 
> released.
> 
> This is the normal behaviour when adding subviews to an NSView or its 
> subclasses.
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> Am 11.01.2011 um 18:06 schrieb Eric Gorr:
> 
>> I've got a sample test project at:
>> 
>> http://ericgorr.net/cocoadev/TableColumnTest.zip
>> 
>> which reproduces the strange crash.
>> 
>> I have a NSTableView to which I need to add NSTableColumns manually using 
>> the addTableColumn: method. The problem is that for some reason when I 
>> release the window and everything is being deallocated, someone has an extra 
>> retain on the table column and it sticks around. This causes a crash because 
>> the OS tries to redraw the table which really isn't there.
>> 
>> Note: With the code as written, it will only cause a crash sometimes...if 
>> you comment back in the call to the EventAvail function in 
>> WindowTestAppDelegate.m, it will crash every time...this is how I ended up 
>> finding the odd behavior to begin with - I am working with a cocoa/carbon 
>> app and EventAvail is still being called.
>> 
>> I can avoid the crash if, in my TableController class, I manually remove the 
>> table column from the table first. Is this what I am expected to do if I 
>> manually add the column? I would not have thought so, but perhaps I am 
>> wrong...?
>> 
>> In TableController.m, I have the function GetNewColumn which creates a new 
>> table column. After I alloc and init the column, I can log the retain count 
>> of the column and see that it is 1. After I call setWidth: on the table 
>> column, I can see that the retain count is 2.
>> 
>> Can anyone shed some light on what might be going on here and why it is 
>> crashing?
>> 
>> (if it matters, I am still running on 10.6.5)
>> 
> 
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