Study Terms: Interface Builder

Am currently working with the Neil Goldstein/Tony Bove book iPad Application Development for Dummies, Version 2. Some ideas to reinforce from today's reading.

(page 101)


* The View Controller Window is the table of contents for the nib file. It represents an instance of each object. Also it always contains two proxy objects.

Proxy Objects

What is a proxy object? I know that a proxy is a substitute for an object and that an objective-C class can be accessed through a proxy object. They are something I give directions to to assume control for me. I think that proxy objects create things on the fly as opposed to my hard-coding them. I'd like to increase my understanding of proxy objects, because I think it would help me to better understand some of the ways that the SDK works.

      * File's Owner
             * is the controller object
             * is responsible for contents of the nib file
             * (in this example) is the View Controller

      * First Responder
              * first entry in the apps dynamically constructed responder chain
              * is the object, with which, the user is currently interacting

(Regular) Objects (in book example p 101)

       * View
              an instance of the UIView class