Need advice about NSTextField, performClick IBAction, and memory management

[Bertrand Dekoninck]

Hi everyone,
I'm reading the "Cocoa programming" book from Aaron Hillegass and I am  
facing two problems writing a little tasklist program at chapter 6.

1)  First problem. The interface has  a NSTextField to write a task,  
an "add" NSButton and a NSTableView that lists the tasks.

The "add" button uses a "createNewTask" method written in my  
appController, that adds the textValue from the textField to my  
datasource of the tableView and reloads the view..

In InterfaceBuilder (not Gorm here but it should be the same), I've  
also connected the "performClick" action from the textField to the  
addButton, so that the createTask method is also called when I type on  
the "Enter" key of the keyboard after editing the textField.

It works as expected, but I've got extra calls to createNewTask : when  
the textField has the focus, performClick is also sent when clicking  
on another widget or if I use the "tab" key to cycle into another  
widget.

Is there a way to avoid these ? Or should I  disconnect the  
performClick action and create another way to call createNewTask with  
the "enter" key in the NSTextField?

2) The second problem is a memory management problem : in the  
createNewTask, I create a NSString using alloc +init.

If I release that string at the end of the method, I've got a segfault  
if I try to add more than two tasks in the tasklist

Obviously, I was trying to access a string that had been deallocated.  
Why does this occur with the third call (not the second call) to the  
method ?

If I don't release the string, everything works fine.

Is there a memory leak if I don't release ? And if true, when should I  
release the string ?


Bertrand Dekoninck

PS : here attached my appController.m file

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