Re: [Pyobjc-dev] NibLoader.py: parsing nibs at runtime

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

On Saturday, Nov 16, 2002, at 21:52 Europe/Amsterdam, Just van Rossum 
wrote:
>
>> I'd probably prefer to emit a warning when you do define IBOutlet
>> objects over doing it when you don't. Never warning at al is probably
>> best.
>>
>> BTW. outlets are implemented using attributes/member variables in ObjC
>> code, IBOutlets perform the same task in PyObjC.
>
> The thing that I don't understand is why they are class attributes: 
> I'd expect
> (but then again, I don't grok them yet) they'd be specific to an 
> instance, and
> therefore be instance attributes. How does it work?
>

IBOutlets properties, just like __builtin__.property. Those are defined 
in the class but have an effect in instances. Properties are part of 
the machinery introduced by new-style classes.

Ronald