Episoed 4 : recipieViewController property ?

Hi,

In Episode 4 when you are delegating the removeIngredients:forReciepe: method all the way to the App Delegate, you create a IBOutlet from IngredientsViewController—>ReceipeViewController.

At the same time, you also create a property for this.
Is this property really required ?

Its confusing because I thought as a rule of thumb, if you intend to use an IBOutlet,
then you should not have a property for the same instance variable, because then you
could easily overwrite the connection made using IB (unless you set the property readonly).

Thanks

Hi Shahed,

The property is not necessary. I often find it convenient, but its not necessary.

Thanks Bill.

I wondered about this too. Also, since your property is doing a retain, aren’t you supposed to do a dealloc and release it too?

As an aside, it must be really hard to edit in a change to the screencast. They are super helpful but I wondered how much time it takes vs. the $5 I’m paying.

Hi Bill,

You are correct about the memory mgt, but I try to limit the conceptual space that I’m covering in each screen cast. I’m thinking we need a series screencast on memory mgt on the iPhone.