Bad EXC_BAD_ACCESS when scrolling through UITableView - objective-c

Question

I initiated a UITableView with the following code:
ProductTableView *tableProd = [[ProductTableView alloc]initWithNibName:#"ProductTableView" bundle:nil];
the xib file does exist!
Since I am displaying this table in a separate UIView I add it to this screen by:
[content addSubview:tableProd.view];
I used xcode to create a standard UITableView and set the following functions:
- (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)tableView
{
return 1;
}
- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
return 10;
}
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
static NSString *CellIdentifier = #"Cell";
UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
if (cell == nil) {
cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
}
cell.textLabel.text = #"test";
return cell;
}
The table is displayed in the simulator with 10 rows filled with test. However, when I start scrolling, and the first cell leaves the screen, the simulator crashes with a EXC_BAD_ACCESS error. I tried using Instruments to detect the NSZombie and the software flaged the zombie. Unfortunately I cant trace this error back to the cause.
Does anyone have a idea what is going wrong here?

Answer 1

if you're adding the view of a view controller as a subview of another view controllers view, i would guess that the ProductTableView view controller is being dealloced (since adding as a subview retains the view, but not the view controller it belongs to)
add the ProductTableView view controller as a property of the container view controller so that it is retained