Should images returned from NSTableView's dragImageForRowsWithIndexes be autoreleased?

[Fritz Anderson]

On 24 Sep 2007, at 1:20 PM, Michael Dupuis wrote:

> I have a table subclass that implements
> dragImageForRowsWithIndexes:::: and have random
> reports of a crash while in the drag loop code (not my
> own) that makes me wonder about the images that are
> created in the implementation: should images alloc'd
> in this call be "leaked" i.e. not released, not
> autoreleased, or should they be autoreleased? Right
> now I autorelease them, and I can't really find
> anything in the documentation or the list that
> specifies the actual image retention explicitly.

By the rules of object ownership for memory management (which I won't  
fully summarize here), you must not release or autorelease any object  
returned from a method not containing "alloc", "new", or "copy" in its  
name.

	-- F