iOS How to set the UIPasteboard (to a NSString)?

[stoopkitty]

I have a UITextView called textview and why wont this IBAction work?

- (IBAction) copyToPasteboard{
	UIPasteboard *pasteboard = [UIPasteboard generalPasteboard];
	
	pasteboard.string = textview.text; // I first tried this, and when it didn't work, I tried:

	[pasteboard setValue:textview.text forPasteboardType:@"public.utf8-plain-text"]; //this, and this didn't work either.
		
	[pasteboard release];
}

What happens is it compiles properly and everything and everything works great until I click the UIButton linked to this IBAction, then the application crashes. I have tried using breakpoints and debugging, I'm not sure what the problem is but I think I have made a syntactical error.

EDIT: From the debugging and breakpoints, the problem is with the two lines of code that have comments appended to them. BTW, I tried those lines of code each individually, and neither of them worked.

EDIT 2: Also, I am able to successfully by using the code

	UIPasteboard *pasteboard = [UIPasteboard generalPasteboard];
	
	if ([pasteboard containsPasteboardTypes: [NSArray arrayWithObject:@"public.utf8-plain-text"]]){
                //its a string
		textview.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",pasteboard.string];
	}
	
	[pasteboard release];

read from the pasteboard, just not write to it.

 

[chown33]

[pasteboard release];

Do you own the pasteboard object or not?

If not, should you be releasing something you don't own?
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/cocoa/Conceptual/MemoryMgmt/MemoryMgmt.html

 

[stoopkitty]

Do you own the pasteboard object or not

Yes, I think I own the pasteboard object...didn't i create it when i did

UIPasteboard *pasteboard = [UIPasteboard generalPasteboard];

?

EDIT:

so when i use

UIPasteboard *pasteboard = [UIPasteboard generalPasteboard];

i'm not allocating any memory, so its not my job to release the variable?
is the only time when you need to release a object when you use "alloc", or are there ways to create objects that i would be responsible for releasing without using alloc?

 

[chown33]

is the only time when you need to release a object when you use "alloc", or are there ways to create objects that i would be responsible for releasing without using alloc?

Read the Memory Management Guide at the URL already provided. It tells you the rules of ownership.