RE: Newb question on IB outlet assignments

FROM : M. Carlson
DATE : Thu Mar 06 23:22:51 2008

What I mean is, the little black menu doesn't show which outlet it is
currently assigned to! That little bit of info would be priceless here,
imho.



--MC


> CC: <email_removed>
> From: <email_removed>
> To: <email_removed>
> Subject: Re: Newb question on IB outlet assignments
> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 23:13:43 +0100
>
> 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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