Re: Newb question on IB outlet assignments

FROM : Christiaan Hofman
DATE : Thu Mar 06 23:13:43 2008

Uhm, it does. The info in the black 'menu' you get is just a relevant 
subset of the Connections listed in the inspector panel.

Christiaan

On 6 Mar 2008, at 11:05 PM, M. Carlson wrote:

>
> Yes, if I have the outlets panel up for the Controller, then I can 
> see the assignment. But wouldn't it also make a lot of sense if they 
> would reflect the pertinent info in the little black menu that pops 
> up when you're connecting things? Perhaps an enhancement request ...
>
> Thanks, Steven & Rob.
> --MC
>

>> From: <email_removed>
>> To: <email_removed>
>> Subject: Re: Newb question on IB outlet assignments
>> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:03:00 -0500
>> CC: <email_removed>; <email_removed>
>>
>> Rather than checking the outlets for the NSTextField, check the
>> outlets for the Controller. You should see your MyTextField 
>> connection
>> listed there.
>>
>> On Mar 5, 2008, at 11:22 PM, M. Carlson wrote:
>>

>>>
>>> Hmm, the only outlets listed in the Inspector Connections section
>>> for my textfield are:
>>> - delegate
>>> - formatter
>>> - menu
>>> - nextKeyView
>>> Where is "myTextField" supposed to show up?
>>> Thx!
>>> --MC
>>>
>>> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 21:43:27 -0500
>>> From: <email_removed>
>>> To: <email_removed>
>>> Subject: Re: Newb question on IB outlet assignments
>>> CC: <email_removed>
>>>
>>> Look at the Inspector for the controller - in the Connections
>>> section (blue circle with an arrow). Here you should see a list of
>>> Outlets, and so forth.
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 8:52 PM, M. Carlson <<email_removed>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm a little confused trying to assign a NSTextField to an IBOutlet
>>> using the new Interface Builder in Leopard.
>>>
>>> I added a new outlet, defined in my Controller.h as:
>>>
>>> IBOutlet NSTextField *myTextField;
>>>
>>> I control-drag a blue line from the instantiation of my Controller
>>> object (blue cube) to the text field on my NIB, and it comes up with
>>> a small black Outlets menu showing me the possible outlet
>>> assignments I can make. "myTextField" shows up in this little menu.
>>>
>>> But, how do I actually MAKE an assignment? If I select the
>>> "myTextField" entry in the menu and click it, the menu goes away,
>>> but is it assigned? If I control-drag again, it shows me the same
>>> list of possible outlets, but there's no indication which outlet is
>>> assigned to it, if any.
>>>
>>> --MC

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