Re: Bypassing Interface Builder

FROM : Graham Cox
DATE : Thu May 15 03:02:41 2008

Actually I wonder if this could be a useful enhancement to IB? Say if 
you've never edited the object's name from the default, but then drag-
connect an outlet to it, the label changed to the name of the outlet. 
That would be a quick and easy way to see at a glance what object it 
is *in terms of your own ivar identifiers*. If you edit it anyway, 
before or after, it just uses your label.

Just an idea,

G.


On 15 May 2008, at 10:51 am, I. Savant wrote:

>> And if I want to refer by name to that instance in my code, what is 
>> the name of the instance?

>
>  Nothing. That is, not until you add an IBOutlet in whatever class 
> you want to connect to that instance. Say "AppController" has an 
> outlet called "thingController". You can then connect the 
> AppController's someThingController outlet to the "Some Thing 
> Controller" instance. Now, anywhere within your AppController class, 
> you can send messages to the "Some Thing Controller" instance by its 
> shiny new name: