On May 27, 2008, at 2:02 PM, Quincey Morris wrote:
So I was wondering if something like "Nib's Root Object" might work
better. I think, to anyone with even a small amount of exposure to
programming topics, "root" connotes something structural and not
something behavioral, which seems appropriate here.
That's not good either. "Root object" has a special meaning in the
context of archiving graphs of objects. In particular, it's one of
the archived objects, whereas File's Owner is by definition not one of
the objects in the nib.
On May 27, 2008, at 07:06, Andy Lee wrote:
You would send the message to the object you want to be the File's
Owner.
Instead of:
BOOL didLoad = [NSBundle loadNibNamed:@"MyNib" owner:myObject];
...you would say:
BOOL didLoad = [myObject loadNibNamed:@"MyNib"];
...thus leaving out any mention of bundles as an implementation
detail. It would then be correct to say that the File's Owner
would be the object that loaded the nib.
Aside from functional issues, I'm not sure this helps greatly on the
conceptual front. It may just shift the question from "Which object
do I specify for 'owner:'?" to "Which object do I send the message
to?" I guess you'd have to test it in the field to find out. :)
I was addressing specifically the point you made, which was that
"File's Owner isn't the object that loaded the nib, it's the object
that the object that loaded the nib *says* is the owner." My way,
this level of indirection goes away.
If you look at the rest of my original suggestion (before the
clarification above), I suggested the term "Nib's Loader" as a
replacement for "File's Owner", which would connote something
behavioral: "I'm the object that loaded this nib."
I think "Nib's Loader" would have decreased cognitive load if it had
been the term used in the first place (along with the -loadNibNamed:
change). I wrote:
This way we'd be reinforcing the concept of "load a nib" in two
places, rather than "load a nib" in one place and "own a file" in
the other.
I personally think this would help, mainly if we could go back in time
to make the change ;). But maybe it wouldn't.
--Andy
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