You should use ViewWillAppear() and ViewDidDisappear() instead.

René

Am 25.09.2012 um 10:51 schrieb slodge <[email protected]>:

> Thanks Adam
> 
> Interesting feedback
> 
>> So what do you do with the code in that function? 
> 
> If my UIViewController is (pseudocode):
> 
>   class MyUIVC
>   {
>        void ViewDidLoad()
>       {
>            ApplicationSingleton.Messages += MessageHandler;
>       }
> 
>       void MessageHandler(s, e)
>       {
>            // do stuff...
>       }
>   }
> 
> Obviously if my viewcontroller never unsubscribes then the from the
> ApplicationSingleton.Messages event, then the C# viewcontroller object will
> never get garbage collected...
> 
> So I'm currently wondering what 'uikit' hooks are available in which my
> viewcontroller can unsubscribe.
> 
> Currently, I guess some of my options are:
> 
> - unsubscribe in the Dispose(bool) override - but be aware that this will
> only get called after a memory alert has triggered - so it's not optimal and
> you could have a lot of event subscriptions hanging around.
> - consider using WeakReferences for the events - again not optimal (and also
> a bit nasty to debug IMO)
> - rearchitect the application behaviour to somehow use ViewDidAppear and
> ViewDidDisappear (I think this is probably the best thing to do - I just
> need to do some testing across tabs, splits, navigations, modals, popups,
> etc to remind myself exactly when these selectors get called in a view
> hierarchy)
> - rearchitect the application behaviour to somehow use the
> NavigationController Delegate
> 
> Actually writing this all down has really helped me make my own mind up -
> very therapeutic - thanks :)
> 
> Stuart
> 
> P.S. I don't think my previous ViewDidUnload() handler was a good place to
> unsubscribe either -so I'm glad this change is forcing me to look at the
> architecture again :) 
> 
> 
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