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Re: File's Owner


  • Subject: Re: File's Owner
  • From: Andreas Mayer <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 05:34:12 +0200


Am 26.05.2008 um 19:49 Uhr schrieb Quincey Morris:

-- First, although it's *called* "File's Owner", the concept isn't essentially about files or ownership.

I guess that depends on your definition of "ownership". And we could argue wether an object graph loaded from a nib is still somehow attached to the original file. But I don't think that would be of any help in understanding the concept.


-- Second, saying that "File's Owner is the object specified as the owner when the nib is loaded" (as the documentation does) isn't very helpful to someone trying to come to grips with the concept,

Maybe. But it's simply the definition of the term, so it *has* to be written like this.


Really, that's all the File's Owner *is*: The object that was passed in as such when the nib was loaded.
Everything else is interpretation, best practice, conventions etc.


So, a newbie's first exposure to File's Owner suggests that there's a right answer to what File's Owner needs to be,

Is that so? Well, that's a misconception. There's only examples of what *usually* is used as a File's Owner.


but the documentation (along with quite a number of the explanations in this thread) insists that File's Owner can be whatever you want it to be.

Which is true.


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