I'm messing around with adding some features to my app that require ARC (Automatic Reference Counting), but ARC doesn't seem to play nice with buzztouch projects - anyone know anything about that kind of stuff? :) I've tried converting my project, but xcode throws back errors during conversion. If I can't fix this I might have to forgo this new "plugin". I could do it manually, I would need to remove every single instance of release and retain from buzztouch, which would be impractical. Just wondering if anyone has ever used ARC in their BT powered project? Cheers, David.

BT projects are built for an iOS version that do not support ARC. The only way to use ARC in a BT project is to remove all "release" statements. You also need to make the iOS build version 4.0 or higher, I think. There are also some other statements other than the "release" statements that need to be either removed or modified using the __bridge cast. There might be some other cases I'm forgetting but that's the gist of it. But there's no easy way to convert a BT Project. -tM

Perhaps this might shed some light on it? http://www.codeography.com/2011/10/10/making-arc-and-non-arc-play-nice.html I have no useful information about ARC/non-ARC. Cheers! -- Smug

The Buzztouch Core Version 3.0 is coming soon (close to the release of iOS 7), and this may include ARC. It seems to be the way of the future, less code, better memory management. Jake

Smug, you saved the day! I selected the files that needed ARC and had xcode only do those, rather than the entire project (WAY MORE PRACTICAL). TM you're right, I ended up trying to manually do it and holy crap, hundreds and hundreds of instances. Crazy, but makes sense. Nice to see you post, haven't seen you in a while. Jake, yup would be cool, seems to me would be a awesome addition. Cheers guys! Thanks! David.

@MrDavid I try to post on here as much as I can but you know me ;). Busy busy busy. -tM

I am hoping Jake is right and Buzztouch is moving to an ARC model. iOS 4 is going the way of the Dodo Bird.

@MrDavid- So did you get the thing that required ARC to work? Smug, Jake and I were just trying to figure out if this plugin would work but it required ARC.

To anyone wondering: https://www.buzztouch.com/forum/thread.php?tid=DD305968B7BF108600A258C&command=isSearching&currentPage=1&topicTitle=&createdBy=MrDavid&repliedBy=&minViews=-1&maxViews=-1&minReplies=-1&maxReplies=-1&forumCategory=