[Pyobjc-dev] NIB Validation & action methods

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For action methods, I would suggest not building the stub methods for 
each action.   Cocoa's nib loading mechanism already verifies that an 
action method exists as the NIB is loaded and, if not, will emit a 
message such as...

2002-11-16 16:29:47.283 example[1603] Could not connect the action 
randomAction: to target of class ExampleObject

... which serves nicely to remind the developer that that particular 
action method needs to be implemented.   Note that pushing the button 
that tried to connect that action doesn't do anything.

As far as outlets are concerned, validation becomes more difficult.   
Whether or not the outlet exists is determined by the configuration of 
the NIB file, not the developer and, as such, it is impossible-- given 
Just's most excellent code-- for the developer to 'use' an outlet that 
is not actually declared in the NIB (the developer can try, but they 
will get the classic KeyError style 'no such attribute' python 
exception).

b.bum