Hello, I've been having with an objective-c class which appears to be losing its pointer reference between methods of the same class.

In the MyTableViewController.h file, I declare:

@interface SettingsTableViewController : UITableViewController <UITextFieldDelegate>{
    OCRAppDelegate *delegate;
}

MyTableViewController.m file

- (id) init {
    self = [ super initWithStyle: UITableViewStyleGrouped ];
    delegate = [(OCRAppDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] retain];
}

The problem is when the "MyTableViewController" view appears again and a different method is executed within that same class, the delegate pointer (which was assigned during the init method) is no longer there. I tried to retain, but to no avail.

Would anyone know why this is, it seems like perhaps it is a fundamental Objective-C issue which I am missing.

Appreciate your help.

Thanks, Winston