[Mono-osx] MonoMac retain/release

[Geoff Norton]

Whenever we bubble a proxy object, it takes a reference to the underlying native object, as such in the circumstance you described the object could not "go away"

-g

On 2010-04-20, at 1:24 PM, Duane Wandless wrote:

> I noticed that retain/release/autorelease our internal methods.  I'm not fan of doing memory management as that takes away time from solving business needs.  Memory management is required with obj-c.  And I believe these should be public.
> 
> There are times when an object is passed as an argument into my C# code that must be retained while the C# code manipulates the object (typically a UI object)... then release that object when done.  The most common usage is the UI is a delegate for the async C# method.  At times the UI object will go away while the C# code is running its async task.  The retain of course prevents sending a selector to a deallocated object.  And there are times when the UI delegate selector is not invoked so I must be able to release the UI object from the C# code.
> 
> I think one of the fundamental design patterns of MonoTouch and now MonoMac is that all the code will be written in C#.  I do think this assumption is limiting.  Giving the C# code full access to the obj-c objects allows for truly the best of both worlds.  The advantages of the C# language can be leveraged.. but without limiting the functionality of the various NS classes within C#.
> 
> Again my usage is a native obj-c app for the UI with the business logic in C#.  There are advantages to fully developing within C# MonoMac .. I just want to push the design so that is not required.
> 
> Duane
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