Tracking Skill Points and Removing Characters

As per title, these two things are part of my work in progress. Normally, I'd hold off on getting new features in but my weekly write up on my progress does look better when it appears that I've been tackling more problems.

For skills currently training, I first calculated how many seconds it takes to get 1 skill point based on the character attributes and skill being trained and then set up a timer to fire at that interval to update the value. The learned skill managed object's skill points learned value gets updated also at that frequency and I set the context to be updated once every 20 seconds. I'm not sure I'll stick with that value but I think it's a pretty reasonable number. Also, while, in the process of typing this, I don't recall writing in code to stop the timers once the accrued skill points hit the requirement for the next level. Hmm...

Removing characters is a work in progress now. For a while what bugged me was the retain count on some of these objects, some being as high up as 5. I went in and wherever I could, I put in releases. I then realized my setDelegate: methods were also affecting the retain count so I fixed those. Finally, after a while of probing, I came to find out NSTimers were also adding to the retain count, forcing make methods to kill the timers before sending a release message to the object. I'm now at the point where I'm passing a release message to an NSXMLDocument but its causing me to crash every time I access that object. It's late, though, so it'll be tomorrow's project.

As always, delete the contents of ~/Library/Application Support/EVE Mac Suite/ before running this app. I may later one, for my own sake, too, create a way to allow the user to completely wipe the cache and force the app to rebuild its database.

On a final note, Sam Adam's Cherry Wheat is damn fine beer.