In my mind, myViewController should be deallocated around the time that I pop back to the root view controller with the following code, but I never see the deallocation message getting NSLogged.
If this should work, then what kind of problem can I look for in the myViewController's class that might cause it to get deallocated when I popToRootViewController?
Thanks.
The following gets called in my tableView:
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
MyViewController *vc = [[MyViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"MyViewController" bundle:nil];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:vc animated:YES];
[vc release];
}
UPDATE:
This code was perfect, but it was some bad memory management in my custom view controllers that caused neither to be released. I had some retained properties that should have been assign instead (or at least, that's the way I solved it). See comments for specifics.
When you use poptoviewcontroller then dealloc method will call for the topmost view controller in navigation controller. You can put a breakpoint in dealloc method of your current view controller and when you called popviewcontroller then your dealloc method gets called and release all the stuff/varaibles you have created in your view controller.
@JaySmith02 is right
In my case the culprit was
From my viewController when I wrote
I guess the
dataSource
retained myviewController
and made a circular retention. The 'dealloc' of myviewController
was never getting called.The solution: