Re[6]: Recent key-value encoding changes to NSObject.

[Manuel Guesdon]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 17:38:41 +0000 (GMT) Nicola Pero <address@hidden> wrote:
 >| > Yes, that's the problem. But it works with WO.
 >| 
 >| I think that's ugly silly and confusing.

Yes and no: it's very intuitive.
It's only seems strange when your really try to see how this can works :-)


 >| Anyway, if that is what Apple does and you want to do a similar thing,

Yes :-)


 >| I suggest that you do as follows in your custom subclass -
 >| 
[...]
 >|   /* If there is an ivar, use it.  */
 >| This should support all your needs - 
 >| 
 >|  ivars take precedence over everything else.
 >|  dictionary values take precedence over getXXX.
 >|  getXXX are still used when all else fails.

But getXXX should be called before ivar access (during the valueForKey 
process). :-(


Manuel

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