Re: Bypassing Interface Builder

FROM : Andy Lee
DATE : Thu May 15 03:08:31 2008

It might get confusing if you have multiple objects with differently 
named outlets pointing to the same thing.

--Andy

On May 14, 2008, at 9:02 PM, Graham Cox wrote:

> 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:

>
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