> On 7 Apr 2015, at 15:34, Kyle Sluder <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2015, at 04:46 AM, Dave wrote: >> >> Is there any reason why? Seems a bit nuts to not allow it on NSViews, I >> do it all the time with UIView. > > Speculation: it might just be an artifact of history, like how -target > and -action are on NSActionCell instead of NSCell. > > The purpose of tag was for the recipient of an action message to figure > out which member of a group of controls was actually chosen. > Conceptually, senders were going to be NSControls, so back in the day it > might have really been a big deal to save those four bytes on each > non-control NSView instance.
Yeah, and now there’s a better solution anyway using “identifier”. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Xcode-users mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/xcode-users/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
