On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Niko Matsakis <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> > We got into this whole debate in the cocoa dev list about prefixes. I was
> using them for a while until i started doing Objective C 2.0 work. Then
> voted against using prefixes in ivars like _, m_, etc. The reasoning for
> this was i would like the accessors to be used when setting things using
> interface builder to setup interface objects. This keeps the pattern of
> using the accessors consistent.
> >
>
> I don't quite understand. Are you saying the IB invokes an accessor if it
> exists?
"During the reconnection process, the nib-loading code reconnects any
outlets, actions, and bindings you created in Interface Builder. When
reestablishing outlet connections, Cocoa tries to do so using the
object's own methods first. For each outlet, Cocoa looks for a method
of the form setOutletName: and calls it if such a method is present.
If it cannot find such a method, Cocoa searches the object for an
instance variable with the corresponding outlet name and tries to set
the value directly. If the instance variable cannot be found, no
connection is created."
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/LoadingResources/CocoaNibs/chapter_3_section_3.html>
-Shawn
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