Re: iOS nib weirdness...
Re: iOS nib weirdness...
- Subject: Re: iOS nib weirdness...
- From: Steve Christensen <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 08:21:52 -0700
On May 4, 2011, at 8:17 AM, glenn andreas wrote:
> On May 4, 2011, at 9:00 AM, Steve Christensen wrote:
>
>> I'm working on an app that uses a tab bar. I created a new nib to set up a view+controller and added a new tab item to the main nib that references the controller and the controller's nib, plus I filled in some basic functionality in the view controller. Since it's relevant, the controller's IBOutlets are
>>
>> IBOutlet MyTableView* _resultsTable;
>> IBOutlet UIActivityIndicatorView* _searchActivityIndicator;
>> IBOutlet UISearchBar* _searchBar;
>
> First step: Don't prepend your ivars with underscores.
>
> From <http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CodingGuidelines/Articles/NamingBasics.html>, and I quote:
>
> " • Avoid the use of the underscore character as a prefix meaning private, especially in methods. Apple reserves the use of this convention. Use by third parties could result in name-space collisions; they might unwittingly override an existing private method with one of their own, with disastrous consequence."
>
> You may be seeing one of those "disastrous consequences"
I did think about that. I renamed the ivars to something completely different, rewired the xib and tried it out with no difference in behavior.
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