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SimplyKiwi
SimplyKiwi

Reputation: 12444

Proper Memory Management for this line? (Cocos2D)

I am getting the following line as a leak in Xcode:

someSprite = [[CCSprite alloc] initWithFile:(NSString*)obj];

I know that I do alloc it there but I thought Cocos2D handled all of the memory management. Anyway how should I properly handle that line in order for there to not be a leak?

Should I simply use autorelease or is there more to it?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 132

Answers (2)

Morion
Morion

Reputation: 10860

usually, it is more preferable to use static constructors that return autoreleased objects. For your case it will be

[CCSprite spriteWithFile:(NSString*)obj];

it will be retained when you add it to any parent

Upvotes: 1

Sunkas
Sunkas

Reputation: 9590

Cocos2D does not handle memory for you. However, I think you can use Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) to get rid of having to handle memory yourself. You then have use Cocos2d as a static library since cocos2d does not support ARC.

If you want to solve your problem without ARC just insert a autorelease. If it is a instance variable, release it in your dealloc method instead.

Upvotes: 2

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