UIPasteboard - cannot copy text

Question

This code should copy the string to the generalPasteboard, as the [[UIPasteboard generalPasteboard] string] object, but the method causes the program to terminate.

- (void)copyResultToPasteboard {
    NSString *message = self.resultTextView.text;
    [UIPasteboard generalPasteboard].string = message;
    [message release];
}

I think it's something to do with format, seeing as the method works if the message is set to a literal string, but resultTextView.text is just an NSString... I don't fully understand, can anyone help?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 24 '13 at 07:14

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Are you sure that resultTextView.text is returning a copy of the backing store, and not the actual NSString* used to store the data? Looking over the Apple documentation, it seems likely it's just returning the internal pointer (unretained). Calling release on a string being used by the UITextView class could cause this behaviour.

edited Sep 24 '13 at 07:14

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answered Sep 07 '09 at 13:05

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 07 '09 at 13:13

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You're sending -release to an object which you didn't (or at least, which it doesn't appear you have, from the snippit) first -retain, +alloc or get through -copying another object.

answered Sep 07 '09 at 13:13

UIPasteboard - cannot copy text

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