Generally speaking you will do well for yourself to follow Apple's example over Erica's. I haven't actually read her book but I've had several examples come to my attention of where she doesn't do things in the best way.

Erica is a talented hacker but please get in the habit of following the canonical examples. These have been thoroughly vetted and approved my many experts.

Luke

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On Dec 13, 2008, at 7:22 PM, Debajit Adhikary <deba...@debajit.com> wrote:

I meant to ask what the tradeoffs are between declaring the UIWindow object
as an instance variable in the AppDelegate vs. as a local object in
-applicationDidFinishLaunching:

The specific example I'd mentioned was from Erica Sadun's book, and looking at Apple's sample code, and the code that XCode generates, it seems that the
UIWindow object is typically declared as an instance variable in the
AppDelegate and seems the way to go (as opposed to Erica Sadun's example of
using a local UIWindow object).


On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Debajit Adhikary <deba...@debajit.com>wrote:

When you create an iPhone app, in the AppDelegate, why is the
UIWindow created locally within -applicationDidFinishLaunching and not
declared
as an ivar? The functionality does not seem to change either way. I'd
like to know how one approach is better than the other.

What I presume is that the window object really doesn't need to be accessed
from outside later. But doesn't declaring it as an ivar make it more
accessible from the "outside" allowing greater application extensibility?

@implementation AppDelegate

- (void) applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication*) application
{
  UIWindow* window = ... ;
  [window addSubView: ...];
  [window makeKeyAndVisible];
}

...
@end


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