Re: IB, exclamation points, and targets
Re: IB, exclamation points, and targets
- Subject: Re: IB, exclamation points, and targets
- From: Henri Lamiraux <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 13:07:21 -0700
As said in the release note, the exclamation point is not an error, just
a warning. It just tells you that something is not connected but it
doesn't say it is wrong. In the next release once you are sure your nib
if fine you'll be able to turn them off.
On Friday, October 5, 2001, at 12:52 PM, Bell, Carl wrote:
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Howdy,
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After installing the latest dev tools, I noticed that in IB several
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of my windows' instance view icons have small exclamation points on
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them. (This is mentioned in the release notes.) Turns out, the reason
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they are there is because I have some controls which do not have targets
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associated with them. They are mostly checkboxes and text fields that
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specify search criteria when the user clicks a "Find" button.
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So, is it considered poor Cocoa programming practice to have controls
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with nil targets? Or should I create a "do nothing" action and use
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that? One thing I don't want to do is create instance variables for
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every possible setting and then create individual methods that update
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these variables when the user updates the control (code-clutter).
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-cb
Henri Lamiraux
Engineering Manager
User Interface Tools Group
Apple