Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Wild idea #17: Extra functionality for NibClassBuilder

[Just v. R. <ju...@le...>]

Ronald Oussoren wrote:

> > You get a real good overview if you view the nib in IB itself, in
> > the "Instances" tab, but set to "list view" (push the lower one of
> > the two tiny buttons above the vertical scroller in the main nib
> > window. Click on the funny arrows to find out which connections go
> > where).
> 
> I didn't know about this one, this is pretty usefull.

Yeah, it's very well hidden... I discovered it by accident, it's a great
feature, deserving a menu item.

> > [ ... ] Btw, outlets (and delegates, datasources, targets, etc.)
> > are always weak references, in the Objective-C sense, meaning it's
> > a pointer that's not retained, *shudder*...]
> 
> The reason for this is probably that updating release counts is 
> expensive. Not a very good reason if you ask me. Updating the release 
> counts is relatively expensive because there is locking involved: ObjC 
> has no GIL.

I think it's simply to avoid circular references.

Just