Re: Circular initialization of controllers in NIB file

FROM : Alastair Houghton
DATE : Thu Jan 03 19:33:45 2008

On 3 Jan 2008, at 18:16, Nathan Auch wrote:

> Thus, the main window controller has an IBOutlet for a panel 
> controller, and the panel controller has an IBOutlet for the main 
> window controller. These are both assigned in Interface Builder. 
> After loading the NIB file, the IBOutlet pointing to the main window 
> controller from the panel controller is never set (value is nil). I 
> think this must be because there is a circular dependency during 
> initialization of the NIB file.


No, that's not the problem.  Most likely you have chosen a name for 
your variable for which there is an unrelated -setSomeName: method; 
that method will be being called during initialisation, rather than 
just setting the variable directly.

Kind regards,

Alastair.

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