iOS initWithFrame:frame] 与 [UIButton buttonWithType] 对比

What's the difference between the following two code snippets?

1.

UIButton *button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
button.frame = frame;

2.

UIButton *button = [[[UIButton alloc] initWithFrame:frame] autorelease];

I think they're equivalent. Haha! Trick question you sneaky little punk!

Reasoning

-buttonWithType:

returns an autoreleased

UIButton

object.

+[NSObject alloc]

defaults scalar instance variables to

0

, so

buttonType

should be

0

, or

UIButtonTypeCustom

.

Pros & Cons

You could argue that it's clearer to use

-buttonWithType:

and set

buttonType

explicitly and that it's safer in case Apple changes

UIButtonTypeCustom

to be

1

instead of

0

(which will most certainly never happen).
On the other hand, you could also argue that it's clear & safe enough to use

-initWithFrame

. Plus, many of the Xcode sample projects, such as "TheElements" & "BubbleLevel," use this approach. One advantage is that you can explicitly release the

UIButton

before the run loop for your application's main thread has drained its autorelease pool. And, that's why I prefer option 2.
I would strongly suggest using the first approach (

+buttonWithType

), because that's the only way to specify the button type.If you

+alloc

and

-initWithFrame:

, the

buttonType

is set to some standard value (not sure which, and this could change in later versions of the SDK) and you can't change the type afterwards because the

buttonType

property is read only.
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