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From: moose@svc.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NIB objects' id
Message-ID: <1991Feb15.022126.14760@svc.portal.com>
Date: 15 Feb 91 02:21:26 GMT
References: <222@qt.cs.utexas.edu> <467@nwnexus.WA.COM>
Organization: Software Ventures Corporation, Berkeley
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In article <467@nwnexus.WA.COM> adonis1@nwnexus.UUCP (Adonis Corporation (Doug Kent)) writes:
>In article <222@qt.cs.utexas.edu> tph@cs.utexas.edu (Pow-Hwee Tan) writes:
>>  Specifically, I created a list of radio buttons (controls) and 
>>I need to reset their settings according to values stored in a
>>file.  This require me to know their id's.
>I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do, but perhaps what you
>want is the 'tag' which you can set in Interface Builder and obtain
>via the 'tag' method.

While I use the tag method now, after spending an afternoon at NeXT I found
out something interesting.  Programmers at NeXT no longer use tags at all.  
They use the object name.  Since names mean more to me than numbers, I am
moving all my stuff over from tags to names.
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