Creating An Initialisation Function

Create your own initialise function

//**************************************
//**************************************
//********** CLASS INITIALISE **********
//**************************************
//**************************************
//Override the default init in case our class is created using init instead of our initialse funciton (no need to declare in .h file as we're overriding a superclass method)
- (id)init
{
	return [self initMyInitFunctionName:@""
						 Value1:0];
}

//Our new init function:
-(id)initMyInitFunctionName:(NSString *)pName		//Always start the name with 'init'
			 Value1:(int)value1
{
	//Call superclass initialiser
	self = [super init];
	if (!self)					//Check it didn't fail
		return nil;

	//Do init tasks...

	//Exit with our address
	return self;
}

And create your own dealloc function to release any instance variables

//***********************************
//***********************************
//********** CLASS RELEASE **********
//***********************************
//***********************************
- (void)dealloc
{
	[MyObject1 release];
	...
	[super dealloc];	//Call the super class deallocate once we have released our objects its not aware of
}