Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Cocoa/Objective-C equiv to __del__?

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

On Friday, 29 August 2003, at 15:07, Zachery Bir wrote:

> On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 02:02 PM, Zachery Bir wrote:
>
>> Thanks, yeah, looks like the example apps use __del__ (with comments 
>> that say: "dealloc in Obj-C" :)
>
> Hmm... Okay, I've got a __del__ method in my application's delegate 
> class, and I'm trying to clean up after myself. It doesn't seem to get 
> called, though. I've put an 'import pdb;pdb.set_trace()' in the 
> __del__ method, and I never get the prompt - it works just about 
> everywhere else, when I need that kind of run-time introspection.

I don't know if the application's delegate is ever cleaned up unless 
you do so yourself. That might explain why your __del__ method isn't 
called.

>
> Question: Is it problematic (or even bad programming/design) to have 
> the same class as the delegate for the Application, the Window, and an 
> NSTableView? I can imagine that it might be a bit overloaded, but it 
> does seem to do stuff for each of those in its way. I'm not sure how I 
> could share all this information between several delegate classes, but 
> this has been a bit of an accretive project ;)

The real Cocoa guru's probably live somewhere else, but for what it's 
worth: I also do this is simple programs.  Keeping the 
controllers/delegates for a window together keeps things simple.

Ronald