Jens, Shawn, Thanks. I have my application working, however not exactly as I would like. What I did was, in IB, created a NSObject, and set it to my POSsocket class. I understand now that IB "automatically" instantiates this classes that you put in there. I added the required outlets, and I can do what I need to do.
I would prefer to separate I/O activities, business logic, etc from the GUI, as well as be able to instantiate objects programmatically, and that is what I have been attempting to do, I just have no mechanism of sending messages to my "controller" class from my "model" objects unless the "controller" makes the call. I guess I just have to get my head around it, and design appropriately. Again, thanks so much for your help, Matt -----Original Message----- From: Jens Alfke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com Subject: Re: fundamental question: how do I call controller methods from other classes? On 21 May '08, at 5:07 PM, Matthew Youney wrote: > The name of the controller object in interface builder is > myPOSsocketController, and the following gives the compiler error > "myPOSsocketController undeclared or first use in function" If you want an object in a nib to know about another one, then modify its class to add an instance variable declared as an IBOutlet: @interface POSocket { ... IBOutlet POSocketController myController; Save the .h file and IB will now know about that outlet, and you can control-drag from the POSocket to the controller and assign the myController instance variable. Typically what happens is that you have a controller object (often an NSWindowController) that's the nib's owner, and you add outlets to it for all the other nib objects you need to reference directly. It's rarer for other objects in the nib to have outlets pointing to each other, but it happens sometimes. -Jens _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
