Weak rbl_viewController reference causing EXC_BAD_ACCESS errors about rebel HOT 3 CLOSED

It sounds like the view controller's being deallocated before its associated view is.

Be sure to keep your view controller alive as long as your view is, and to remove the view from the view hierarchy when your view controller is deallocated.

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Changing this to be OBJC_ASSOCIATION_RETAIN_NONATOMIC has fixed my problem but i'm not sure of the full impact of this.

The view controller retains the view, so this would create a retain cycle (with the view also retaining the controller in turn).

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I finally tracked down the problem - somehow in one of our xibs the rbl_viewController outlet had been manually connected up the parent NSViewController!

Thanks for replying so quickly to my issue, it was a big help.

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