Re: [IB] - possible bug [was: how to delete action or outlet?]
Re: [IB] - possible bug [was: how to delete action or outlet?]
- Subject: Re: [IB] - possible bug [was: how to delete action or outlet?]
- From: Kevin Cathey <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:46:44 -0700
Quincey and Graham have hit it exactly: as of IB 3, we encourage you
to manage all of your classes in Xcode. Interface Builder always stays
in sync with your Xcode project files. (however, we still support the
ability to do this in IB, so if you do find a bug with that workflow,
please file it)
I did want to clarify a few things from Quincey's email:
In IB, you added a "onClick:" action to *class* NSObject. Then you
added one to *class* NSObjectController. IB is dutifully remembering
exactly what you told it.
Exactly. Interface Builder keeps a map of classes to actions and
outlets. When you add an action to an object in IB, you are really
just adding it to the class the object represents, not the object
itself. We are well aware of this seemingly strange workflow of
needing an instance of the class to add actions and outlets, so no
need to file a bug report here.
When you connect the button's action to your NSObjectController
object, because it's also a NSObject, you have a choice of the two
actions as your destination, one from each class. Maybe that's a
bug, maybe that's an oversight, maybe that's just how an edge case
happens to work, or maybe that's how it works for a genuine reason.
I don't know.
This is also a known bug.
It wouldn't hurt to submit a bug report about this -- IB certainly
isn't doing a very good job of letting you know what's going on in
this situation -- but I wouldn't be surprised if the answer was
"works as intended".
You should always be submitting bug reports when you find things that
not only don't work, but also workflows that don't make sense. We love
developer feedback!
Kevin
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