On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:31:38 -0800, Wim Lewis <w...@omnigroup.com> said: > >On 13 Dec 2010, at 11:01 AM, Matt Neuburg wrote: >> How can this seemingly minor change make such a big difference? I'm not even >> *using* the synthesized accessor! Yet its mere presence breaks the project. >> How can this be? m. >> >> PS A new discovery: changing the name of the ivar / property to "fr" solves >> the problem. So it appears that the problem is that I'm synthesizing >> accessors for the *name* "firstResponder". It is as if this name was being >> used under the hood in some way I'm unaware of, and synthesizing an accessor >> breaks its use. But how can *that* be? > >Perhaps it stomps on the -isFirstResponder method? KVC access for 'foo' checks >(among other things) '-isFoo', presumably so that boolean properties feel >natural; perhaps synthesizing a 'foo' property likewise causes the object to >respond to 'isFoo'. > >Hmm, also, it appears that UIResponder has some undocumented methods >-firstResponder and -_firstResponder, which your synthesized property would >also interfere with.
Doubtless. But how would I have discovered this? Doesn't anyone besides me want to evince any outrage that this can happen? I mean, sheesh, if I wanted to live in a world where the namespace was polluted with secret undocumented terminology I could collide with accidentally, I could use AppleScript. m. -- matt neuburg, phd = m...@tidbits.com, <http://www.apeth.net/matt/> A fool + a tool + an autorelease pool = cool! AppleScript: the Definitive Guide - Second Edition! http://www.apeth.net/matt/default.html#applescriptthings_______________________________________________ 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 arch...@mail-archive.com
