Objective-c garbage collection

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Published on 2010-04-02T19:00:23Z Indexed on 2010/04/02 19:03 UTC
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If garbage collection is not required:

- (void) awakeFromNib{

//Create the NSStatusBar and set its length
statusItem = [[[NSStatusBar systemStatusBar] statusItemWithLength:NSSquareStatusItemLength] retain];
...

Do I have to release that? And if I do, would that be in a finalize method or dealloc method?

If garbage collection is required, then is the retain call above ignored automatically?

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