On Oct 8, 2013, at 1:47 PM, jonat...@mugginsoft.com wrote: > The NSControl -tag property can be used to identify an action sender. > > Can the NSUserInterfaceItemIdentification protocol property -identifier be > safely used for the same purpose?
I don't know, but I'd prefer representedObject for something like that - it'll only be used by your code, so you don't have any restrictions to worry about. > > It was introduced to support window restoration. > > The docs apply several caveats with regard to the identifier: > https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/cocoa/reference/NSUserInterfaceItemIdentification_Protocol/Introduction/Introduction.html > > From the above: > > You should not change the value of a window’s identifier after adding any > views to the window. For views and controls in a window, the value you > specify for this string must be unique on a per-window basis. > > The slash (/), backslash (\), or colon (:) characters are reserved and must > not be used in your custom identifiers. Similarly, Apple reserves all > identifiers beginning with an underscore (_) character. Applications and > frameworks should use a consistent prefix for their identifiers to avoid > collisions with other frameworks. For a list of prefixes used by the system > frameworks, see “OS X Frameworks” in Mac Technology Overview. > > Jonathan > _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
