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Re: Treating several controls as an array (...or something)

David Newberry <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I was curious as to whether or not I could link several controls to one
> Outlet in IB, and then refer to them with by that outlet and an index or
> some other reference. I have four static text fields and four buttons
> (though this number may grow) -- each button is connected to the same
> action, and I was wondering if there was any way to use the sender
> parameter in the action message to get a reference to its accompanying
> field. Brute force would work of course, I'm just looking for something
> more elegant and requiring less conditional code.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> -David Newberry

The normal way to achieve your goal is to set different tags (either via IB
or in code) on each control, and query the tag in your action.

Cheers,

Chris
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