Re: outlet initialization
Re: outlet initialization
- Subject: Re: outlet initialization
- From: "John C. Randolph" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 17:48:29 -0700
On Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 02:53 PM, Chris Hanson wrote:
At 12:29 PM -0700 4/22/03, John C. Randolph wrote:
If there's a method named set<ivarname>, it will be used. Otherwise,
the ivar is set directly.
Do lots of people depend on this specific behavior, or would it be
reasonable to file feature requests asking for nib archiving to use
key-value coding instead?
I don't know whether a lot of people use it. I'd say that as a
general principle, if there's an accessor method, nib loading should
use it (and so should any other code.)
I ask because if one has an outlet named "_foo", when loading a nib
you won't be sent -setFoo: as you would if nib archiving used
key-value coding. (I believe it will try to send -set_foo:.)
You surmise correctly. However, IB doesn't necessarily know about your
real ivar layout (ie, in the class inspector you can tell it you have
an outlet named foo, and if there's a -setFoo: method, it will neither
know nor care that there's no actual ivar by that name.
-jcr
John C. Randolph <email@hidden> (408) 974-8819
Sr. Cocoa Software Engineer,
Apple Worldwide Developer Relations
http://developer.apple.com/cocoa/index.html
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