I'm relatively new to iPhone Development, so this may be my fault, but it goes against what I've seen. :)

I think that I'm creating a UIAlertView that lives just in this vaccuum of the 'if' statement.

NSData *data = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:&response error:&error];

if(!data)
{
    // Add an alert
    UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Error"
                                                    message:@"Unable to contact server"
                                                   delegate:nil
                                          cancelButtonTitle:@"Ok"
                                          otherButtonTitles:nil];
    NSLog(@"retain count before show: %i", alert.retainCount);
    [alert show];
    NSLog(@"retain count before release: %i", alert.retainCount);
    [alert release];
    NSLog(@"retain count after release: %i", alert.retainCount);
    return nil;
}

However, the console logs baffle me.

retain count before show: 1
retain count before release: 6
retain count after release: 5

I've tried also adding:

alert = nil;

after the release. That makes the retain count 0, but I still show a leak. And if it helps, the leak's Responsible Frame is UIKeyboardInputManagerClassForInputMode. I'm also using OS 4 Beta 3.

So anyone have any ideas how a local UIAlertView's retain count would increment itself by 5 when calling -show?

Thanks for your help!